Life Sciences Building
Built in 2014
The Life Sciences Building replaced the John A. Widstoe Building and is home to the School of Life Sciences. This includes majors such as biology, neuroscience, and genetics. BYU is one of the few universities to have undergraduate anatomy courses with actual cadaver labs, which are housed in this building.
The LSB is a beautiful 5-level, 265,000 square foot building with 24 teaching labs, 3 auditoriums, 4 conference rooms, and more than 70 academic offices. The second floor is designated as the “student floor” and was specifically designed for student-faculty interaction. There are common areas and resources available there. Labs, conference rooms, couches, tables, vending machines, computer labs, and even the advisement center are all on that floor.
In an effort to coordinate with the Life Science instruction and research housed in the building, the architect’s plan was designed to reflect a mountain with a river running down the middle of it. If you walk through the building today, the red brick building gets smaller as you ascend to the top and has a staircase running through the middle of the building.
