The nine-story, 220,000-square-foot Health Sciences Innovation Building opened its doors at North Cherry Avenue and East Mabel Street this summer.
The Forum, a stage area with tiered seating, will draw community members onto campus.
The Faculty Commons features meeting spaces, newspapers and complimentary coffee, and will encourage interaction between faculty members from all corners of campus.
The Health Sciences Innovation Building provides students a variety of spaces to study alone or in groups, or to relax and recharge.
"Design thinking" is a creative problem-solving approach that will be the focus of a spring 2020 pilot course.
Allan Hamilton, executive director of the Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center, Kevin Moynahan, College of Medicine–Tucson deputy dean for education, and Deana Ann Smith, health care simulation educator, work on a life-size virtual dissection table.
ASTEC's manikins allow students and health care providers to practice on realistic models before providing care to an actual human being.
ASTEC is notable for its artificial tissue laboratory, which can create bleeding tissues for students and health care providers to practice on.
ASTEC's SimDeck is a two-story soundstage and training environment with multiple reconfigurable rooms where students and health care providers can practice medical procedures in simulated environments.
The 8th floor of the Health Sciences Innovation Building contains 30 exam rooms that are furnished with clinical equipment for medical students to practice interacting with patients.
The south-facing windows on the ninth floor of the Health Sciences Innovation Building feature floor-to-ceiling glass windows by SageGlass, which are similar to photochromic glasses that automatically darken when exposed to sunlight.
The nine-story, 220,000-square-foot Health Sciences Innovation Building, which opened this summer, has multiple custom design features, introducing new concepts for education and research space.
See inside this state-of-the-art building in this gallery, and read more about the HSIB on the UA@Work website.