Look the future squarely in the face.

最近几个月，这一直是一小组科学教师的艰巨指控，与纽约滑雪道，拖网和美林队伍，学院的设施团队和建筑师合作。他们的项目？为邀请，灵活，可持续，促进协作教学和研究的新科学中心制定愿景。

2016年，Wellesl亚博电竞官网ey Collectens董事会批准了一个建筑计划，包括更换Sage Hall，1931年的科学中心的砖砌建筑，这些建筑在科学中心的背面被摧毁，在基础设施故障中，在结构上不足以实现当代科学。1977年“L-Wing”与大楼前面的实验室，侧面的“E-Wing”，将留下。

在2016年夏天，科学中心教师咨询委员会成员及其合作伙伴开始努力制定新建筑的方案，考虑到支持他们在学院的教学愿景所需的内容。他们在过去的夏天花在原理图的设计中，专注于必要的元素如何在结构内配合在一起。在该过程中，本集团向学生和学术部门提供信息，并访问了全国各地的高校的创新教学空间，从明尼苏达大学到公爵大学。

Led by Dean of Academic Affairs Ann Velenchik and Science Center Director Cathy Summa ’83, the advisory group has attempted to look beyond a narrow focus of departmental needs. “We are looking at shared spaces, rather than department-owned spaces,” Velenchik says, “spaces for more kinds of collaboration between students, between faculty, and between faculty and students.” One key component of the building will be the T.T. and W.F. Chao Foundation Innovation Hub, given in honor of the parents of Wellesley trustee Dorothy Chao Jenkins ’68. It will provide laboratory and active-learning and teaching spaces to be used by all disciplines.

“We are trying to create spaces that support and display the myriad ways in which Wellesley students learn through interactions with peers and faculty,” says Nolan Flynn, associate professor of chemistry. “This isn’t simply about classrooms having the latest technology, though that helps. It is about having a palette of classrooms that assist faculty in lecturing effectively with good sightlines and acoustics, in facilitating interactive small-group work, in moving in real time from the theory to the hands-on practice of正在做科学，其中一些很难，如果不是不可能的话，在我们当前的建筑中创造。“

施工目前是在2018年夏天开始的。虽然建筑物上涨，Wellesley将在Velenchik呼叫附近停车场的“拖车农场”的科学。

“在2018-19期间，我们有一个计划占据了超过10万平方英尺的活动，并将其推入30,000平方英尺的拖车，”她说。“这将需要灵活性，创造力，合作，可能是黄油。”