Walk into the Uytengsu Teaching Laboratory at Stanford’s Shriram Center and you enter a world of possibilities.
Amid its 10,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories and instruments, the facility, also known as the Uytengsu Teaching Center, offers something else: a rare chance for students – mostly undergraduates – to experience the thrill of pursuing original ideas in a quest for new discoveries, says Ross Venook, a senior lecturer in bioengineering.
“One of the powers of this lab is that it’s been designed to enable open-ended, student-driven projects,” says Venook. “In order to support that, you need a space that has the flexibility to go in any direction. Here, the sky’s the limit.”
Free-direction research
Embedded on the first floor of Stanford’s Shriram Center, home to the departments of Bioengineering and of Chemical Engineering, the Uytengsu…
