Facilities in the park attract researchers and students from all 10 West Lafayette colleges, the Purdue University regional campuses, and the Indiana University School of Medicine. The park is developed on about 40 acres bounded by State Street on the north, Nimitz Drive on the south, Airport Road on the west, and South Martin Jischke Drive on the east.
Equipment added to date: $26.9 million
Laboratory space added to date: 102,000 square feet
Office space added to date: 59,000 square feet
Economic impact
$74 million in sponsored research funding in 2007
$100 million of private donations invested in facilities
Unique features
The facilities are shared. Faculty members do not "own" space. Highly collaborative, interdisciplinary projects are connected throughout Purdue and to Purdue Research Parks. Technology commercialization is facilitated through the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Discovery Park provides the space for Purdue's Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development. A $25 million facility for the Discovery Learning Research Center is underway.
Projected Opening: Fall 2009
Cost: $25 million
Space: 31,000 square feet (assignable)
Programs
In addition to the Discovery Learning Research Center research, collaboration, and office space, this building will house the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development, Purdue’s Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development, and Discovery Park office space.
Unique Features
The building provides unique spaces designed for educational research unlike any available nationwide. The flexible spaces are intended to serve as catalysts for discovery that will revolutionize educational practice at all levels, in classrooms and informal learning environments. The unique nature of these spaces lies in their inherent flexibility, to allow for configuration for myriad pedagogical approaches, while also incorporating features that allow for collection of high-quality research data (video, audio) of the learning experience.
Opened: 2004
Cost: $7 million
Major funding: Burton D. Morgan Foundation
Space: 31,000 square feet for classrooms, computer labs, and conference space
Programs
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Certificate Program, and Discovery Learning Research Center are housed here. This facility also provides space for the Center for Regional Development and the Small Business Development Office. The building offers central meeting places for workshops, seminars, and classes and works in conjunction with all Discovery Park centers and the Purdue Research Park.
Unique Features
This facility is home to four pieces of artwork by Frederic Remington, donated by Don M. Newman. The sculpture in the entryway is titled, “The Stampede.” The café area is home to original artwork by Jim Davis, “Garfield.” Other Remingtons in the building are “Coming Through the Rye,” “The Outlaw,” and “Polo.” “Light Bulb,” a painting by Salvador Dali, is on the second floor. The facility also won the Boston Society of Architect's 2005 Design Excellence Honor Award.
Opened: 2007
Cost: $12.4 million
Major funding: Gerald D. and Edna E. Mann
Space: 20,000 square feet of office and research space
Programs
e-Enterprise Center, Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Oncological Sciences Center, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, Healthcare Technical Assistance Programs, Purdue Homeland Security Institute, Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development, Purdue Terrestrial Observatory, Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing, Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Center, and the Shape and Search Sciences Lab.
Unique features
This building's architect and interior designer are from the first women-owned firm to design a Purdue facility. Key design features include a flexible layout to accommodate new projects and contemporary, open spaces to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
Opened: 2005
Cost: $15 million
Major funding: William E. Bindley
Space: 26,000 square feet, including 18,000 square feet of laboratory space
Programs
This facility has four core research capabilities: biomolecular technologies, computational life sciences and informatics, bionanotechnology, and cytomics and imaging. Laboratories include proteomics, metabolomics, and custom genomics facilities; the physiological sensing facility, biopolymer synthesis and nanomedicine laboratories, the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories, the biophysical analysis laboratory, and the integrated screening technologies laboratory. The facility offers six large, open, and flexible laboratory spaces that can be arranged to accommodate specialized research needs. A skywalk connecting to the Birck Nanotechnology Center facilitates inter-center bionanotechnology research.
Opened: 2005
Cost: $58 million
Major funding: Michael J. and Katherine R. (Kay) Birck; Don and Carol Scifres; William B. and Mary Jane Elmore; and Kevin G. Hall
Space
187,000 square feet of a class 1-10-100 nanofabrication cleanroom that also houses a separate biological/pharmaceutical cleanroom that facilitates bionano research in collaboration with the Bindley Bioscience Center. At least 22,000 square feet of laboratory space supports research programs conducted by resident and non-resident users. A surface analysis facility provides analytical services for scientists and engineers performing research in either a central laboratory or production setting. This facility includes a nanotechnology incubator laboratory to support and facilitate technology transfer and entrepreneurship.
Programs
The Birck Nanotechnology Center is home to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and its nanoHUB Web site as well as several other key capabilities (nanoscale metrology, materials growth and deposition, nanoelectronics [NEMS] and microelectronics [MEMS], nanofabrication, electronic characterization, nanophotomics, bionanotechnology, nanochemistry, and theory and computation).
Unique Features
Birck has a water purification system that filters water too pure to drink and an air filtration handling system that keeps air cleaner than that of a surgical facility. Controlled Environments Magazine honored Birck with its Facility of the Year award in 2007.
Discovery Park and its major centers lead Purdue's large-scale interdisciplinary research efforts.
Discovery Park
610 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907
