The
Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) is a facility on
Duke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892...
's west campus located at 450 Research Drive Durham, NC 27708. When it was opened in 1994, the LSRC was the largest single-site interdisciplinary research facility in the
U.S.The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Its classrooms are shared by several departments, but the majority of its offices and laboratories are utilized by the
Nicholas School of the EnvironmentThe Nicholas School of the Environment is one of seven graduate and professional schools at Duke University. A secondary facility is maintained in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina...
, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Center for Cognitive
NeuroscienceNeuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system.The International Brain Research...
and Developmental and the departments of
Computer ScienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
,
PharmacologyPharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals...
and
CancerCancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis...
BiologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
and
CellThe cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life. The Alberts text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos...
and
Molecular BiologyMolecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
.
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The
Levine Science Research Center (LSRC) is a facility on
Duke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892...
's west campus located at 450 Research Drive Durham, NC 27708. When it was opened in 1994, the LSRC was the largest single-site interdisciplinary research facility in the
U.S.The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Its classrooms are shared by several departments, but the majority of its offices and laboratories are utilized by the
Nicholas School of the EnvironmentThe Nicholas School of the Environment is one of seven graduate and professional schools at Duke University. A secondary facility is maintained in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina...
, the Pratt School of Engineering, the Center for Cognitive
NeuroscienceNeuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Such studies span the structure, function, evolutionary history, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, informatics, computational neuroscience and pathology of the nervous system.The International Brain Research...
and Developmental and the departments of
Computer ScienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
,
PharmacologyPharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function. If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals...
and
CancerCancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis...
BiologyBiology is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy...
and
CellThe cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of an organism that is classified as living, and is often called the building block of life. The Alberts text discusses how the "cellular building blocks" move to shape developing embryos...
and
Molecular BiologyMolecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
. The building was named for
Leon LevineLeon Levine is an American businessman that founded the Family Dollar chain of discount stores.Levine was born in Rockingham, North Carolina and did his undergraduate work at Duke University....
, the CEO of Family Dollar Stores.
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