The dynamic environment of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center promotes discovery of all kinds and at all levels. Providing spectacular educational space, the facility serves as a home base for Northwestern’s first-year medical students. They will begin their exploration of basic science and medicine, literally from the bottom up, beginning on the building’s ground floor.
At street level, the facility features two large lecture halls: the spacious 255-seat Hughes Auditorium, which can accommodate an entire medical school class in one sitting, and the more intimate Eleanor R. Baldwin Auditorium with 111 seats. The new educational space also includes two classrooms: the G.D. Searle Foundation Seminar Room (45 seats) and the J. Douglas Gray Family Seminar Room (75 seats). In laboratories throughout the building, graduate students in the life sciences and postdoctoral fellows will continue their education, working alongside faculty mentors.
Serving as the building’s lobby, the ground level welcomes visitors with its open floor plan and ample natural lighting. The 43,427-gross-square-foot space will feature a food court with seating for up to 120 people as well as offer inviting places to sit, study, learn, and collaborate with fellow students, faculty members, and researchers.
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