Duke's Research Heritage: Places

Image	Davison Building	1930 - Present	Originally built to house administration, classrooms and research laboratories for the School of Medicine, the Davison Building connected directly with Duke Hospital and was intentionally placed at the end of the West (Abele) Quadrangle to connect it to the rest of the University. It was later renamed to honor founding dean Wilburt Davison.
Image	Duke Forest	1930 - Present	Beginning with the purchase of small woodlots and failed farms in the 1920s, the forest is now more than 7,000 acres of hardwood and pine in six divisions. It is used for research on climate change and ecology and in teaching forestry and timber management.
Image	Bell Building	1947 - 2012	Duke University's first dedicated research building, named for William Brown Bell, President of American Cyanamid. It was built with funds from the Duke Endowment, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dorothy Beard Foundation. It housed Duke's first electron microscope. Demolished to make room for the Duke Medical Pavilion in the 2010s.
Image	TUNL - Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab	1965 - Present	A regional laboratory shared by faculty and students of Duke, UNC and NC State. It features a 15 Mev cyclotron injector and a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator to produce light ion beams. One of the first physics labs in the country to use a specially adapted general purpose computer to collect experimental data. It is located between French Family Science Center and Levine Science Research Center
Image	Nanaline Duke Building	1968 - Present	Named for James B. Duke's second wife, Mrs. Walker P. Inman (née Nanaline Holt of Macon, Ga.), mother of Doris Duke. Houses labs and offices of Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Dermatology and Neurobiology.
Image	Paul M. Gross Hall	1968 - Present	Built in 1968 as a chemistry research and teaching building to replace "old chemistry" on the west quad, it was converted to other uses in 2014, after completion of French Family Science Center. It currently houses the Social Science Research Institute, Duke Energy Initiative, Rhodes Information Initiative and The Foundry, a space for student teams to fabricate their projects.
Image	Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology	1968 - Present	A collection of seven pressure vessels used for research on human blood gases and pressure effects. Also aids in the treatment of about 250 patients per year for carbon monoxide poisoning, decompression sickness and wound-healing. In 1981, three volunteers lived in one of the lab's chambers for a world-record 43 days to simulate being 2,250 feet below the ocean’s surface.
Image	DFELL - Duke Free Electron Laser	1991 - Present	The 52,000 square foot DFELL has two free electron laser light sources capable of generating intense infrared and ultraviolet radiation. A 1.2 GeV storage ring provides tunable coherent radiation from 400 nm to 193 nm. Intense gamma rays are produced by internal backscattering. The Lab on Science Drive is part of the TUNL facilities.
Image	LSRC - Levine Science Research Center	1994 - Present	Built to house a mix of disciplines, it comprises 341,000 square feet of wet lab, office and classroom space for the Nicholas School of the Environment, The Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, and Computer Science and labs for nine other School of Medicine units.
Image	Duke Human Vaccine Institute	1996 - Present	Formed to develop vaccines and therapies against HIV and AIDS, now addresses influenza and emerging infectious diseases, including novel coronaviruses.
Image	Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Science (CIEMAS)	2004 - Present	This two-part laboratory building was created to literally and figuratively bridge genomic science and engineering. Now home to engineering and genomic and computational biology.
Image	French Family Science Center	2007 - Present	A 280,000 square foot building housing wet and dry labs for research and teaching, classrooms and faculty offices for chemistry, genomics, materials science and nanoscience. Named for the family of Melinda French Gates, Trinity 1986, Fuqua 1987.
Image	Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Medical Education (Trent Semans)	2013 - Present	Opened in 2013 as the new home for medical education, it features a floor of 'Simulation Laboratories' for medical training. Named for Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, niece of J.B. Duke and a trustee of the Duke Endowment for 55 years.