Academic East

Opened in 2019, Academic East is a high-tech hub for innovation where you’ll find some of the same cutting-edge technologies as in the world’s leading engineering and research labs. What’s different is that at Bucknell, you’ll get your hands on these technologies from your very first year, as you seek the next technological breakthrough alongside your professors.

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a female student covered in motion capture markers uses a rowing machine in the motion capture lab, with faculty and students looking on
several empty tables with chairs surrounding them, with two hoods in the background and two large half-circle windows to the side
a classroom with two long conference tables, each surrounded by 14 chairs
Several tables in a large classroom lab
a large piece of machinery taking up a long classroom lab
a student works on a home-built car, a member of faculty in the background
the rooftop garden of academic east; a row of growing plants in the foreground with several fountains to the right
ground-level view of the side exterior of Academic East
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🔬 Tools for Discovery

Academic East is home to the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Education in the College of Arts & Sciences — and both have lab spaces here, including:

• A bioinformatics lab for studying the body in motion with motion-capture sensors
• Sustainability focused labs where we’re developing next-generation solar and clean water technologies
• An autonomous vehicle lab that houses our electric research vehicle for exploring self-driving and safety technologies
• Design studios for students to develop their own real-world engineering projects, frequently with some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies
• A science education classroom that trains future teachers in an authentic environment
• Interview rooms for confidential education research

In total, there are 25 labs here filled with research equipment found almost nowhere else in the world — and our students can access them all.

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