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Home > News > French Family Science Center Opens

November 12th, 2007

French Family Science Center Opens

Abstract:
Duke alumna Melinda French Gates, left, front, talks with Duke Chemistry Assistant Professor Katherine Franz (in red jacket) during the tour of the new French Family Science Center Friday. The $115 million, 280,000-square-foot building features research and teaching laboratories for genomics, biological chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, physical biology and bioinformatics. Other family members on the tour included Gates' sister Susan Burkhardsmeier (to Gates' left) and mother Elaine French (center).

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