VENUE / IEEE HEALTHCOM 2011




The Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center (BLSC) facility on MU’s campus will serve as the venue for the 2011 IEEE HealthCom conference.


The BLSC, which opened in 2004, contains state-of-the-art laboratories, contemporary art, and incredible architectural design, including a five-story tall double helix sculpture that runs through the center of the building. Researchers from a dozen MU departments and divisions, including Engineering, are housed in this collaborative facility.


Measuring 230,000 square-feet, BLSC boasts a 225-seat auditorium, an open atrium where group meals can be served, an on-site coffee shop, and ample meeting rooms that can serve as breakout session space. Free wifi access is available throughout the building.




The mailing address of the Bond Life Sciences Center is 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO 65201. For more information, visit http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/.



Several other campus facilities might be of interest to IEEE attendees.

Lafferre Hall, the main engineering building, includes nearly 55,000 square feet of new labs, offices, classrooms, and student collaboration spaces that opened in 2009.

The entire first floor of this new space is the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, a multidisciplinary, hands-on, environment that is pushing our curriculum towards problem-based learning. Only a handful of colleges currently have multidisciplinary space of this nature on such a large scale.

Tours of the MU Research Reactor, the most powerful university research reactor in the country, are also available (with proper approvals).