Designed in collaboration with Liberty Science Center the ASRC IlluminationSpace, located at the Advanced Science Research Center of The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, students explore five exciting and interconnected areas of science—nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences. The exploration happens in a fun and supportive environment to encourage a deeper understanding of how science shapes our everyday lives.
Unlike a standard science building that lays out a biology floor and a chemistry floor and a physics floor, each in its own world, the ASRC is conceived to break down some of the traditional walls in science, incubating a culture of collaboration among researchers in five distinct but increasingly interconnected disciplines. The researchers in each of the five initiatives at the ASRC embrace this concept. From these collaborations comes transformational science.
Through interactive motion and touchscreen games—and engaging conversations with researchers—visitors learn about the ASRC’s initiatives, inspiring them to search for science in the world around them.
