{"id":2856,"date":"2014-07-08T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T19:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T19:59:16","slug":"celebrating-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/2014\/07\/08\/celebrating-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening celebration of the much-anticipated LEED Certified \u00a0CLSB (Collaborative Life Sciences Building) was held on June 26, 2014 in the South Waterfront in Portland. The CLSB is now home to OSU College of Pharmacy third year students, PSU introductory biology and chemistry classes, and OHSU medical, dental, physician assistant, and radiation technology students. This has been a transformative building project and as guests entered into the building\u2019s central atrium it was obvious this building has succeeded in being a world-class facility for interdisciplinary research and learning. Joe Robertson, MD, MBA, President of OHSU spoke during the opening ceremony. \u201cThis building oozes collaboration and innovation.\u201d He continued, \u201cthe people who study and work here will feel that collaboration and add it to the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a>

Joe Robertson, M.D., M.B.A., President OHSU<\/p><\/div>\n

Upon entering the central atrium, guests were greeted by the impressive artwork of light spiraling on the ceilings and ending at a skylight. This display of light, made of energy-efficient bulbs, fulfills the art requirement for a LEED certified building. Sharing the space with this light installation, are various walkways that connect different floors within the building, some walkways even invite you to sit on a comfortable chair or utilize a table. A view from all eastern and southern windows reveals the Willamette River and Portland\u2019s newest bridge, Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, scheduled to open September 2015. Tilikum Crossing will accommodate only pedestrians, bicyclists, buses, streetcars, and the new Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail. Standing in the CLSB for the first time, it\u2019s hard to tell if you\u2019ve entered a contemporary art museum or an international airport, but we are pleased to call this building a, \u201cworld class concave for learning,\u201d as Edward Ray PhD, President of OSU described it.<\/p>\n

\"Edward<\/a>

Edward Ray, Ph.D., President OSU<\/p><\/div>\n

The day\u2019s speakers also included: The Honorable Charlie Hales, Mayor of Portland; President of PSU, Wim Wiewel, Ph.D; President & CEO, Willamette Dental, Dr. Eugene Skourtes, D.M.D.; President of MMGL Corp., Kennth Novack; and our very own Steve Lam, 2015 OSU\/OHSU Doctor of Pharmacy Candidate. He said, \u201cFor me, this building stands as a symbol and reminder as to why I came into this profession . . . This state of the art building will be an important catalyst that drives us further towards impactful change in health care in Oregon.\u201d Lam most likely shares the same feelings as other students who will study in the building. Kate Jensen, Master of Ceremonies for the event, and a 2014 PSU graduate in Health Sciences, entering the OHSU School of Nursing, described how she was honored to be able to study in a building that would prepare her for the \u201cincreasing global interdisciplinary world.\u201d All the speeches carried a theme of collaboration, inter-education, inter-professionalism, and multi-disciplinary education. These themes were evident in the physical space of the CLSB as well.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/a>

Steve Lam, 2015 OSU\/OHSU Pharm.D. Candidate<\/p><\/div>\n

There was sense of interconnectivity between the art installation and the architecture, between the walkways connecting different parts of the building, between the new bridge connecting Portland\u2019s east and west sides, but the most prominent collaboration was made apparent by the decorations set up for the event that consisted of colorful fabrics representing each university: orange for OSU (Go Beavs), green for PSU, and blue for OHSU . The regal fabric decor hung, with their bold colors, from different corners of the building like streamers that came together in the center of the atrium to form a knot symbolizing the unique collaboration between these universities. \u201cThe Collaborative Life Sciences Building is a wonderful example of how well OSU, OHSU and PSU collaborate on behalf of Oregonians,\u201d said Ray.<\/p>\n

\"OSU\/OHSU<\/a>

OSU\/OHSU Pharmacy students admiring the lighted atrium of the CLSB.<\/p><\/div>\n

The College of Pharmacy has many new upgrades including, three 25-seat classrooms to accommodate smaller groups in the clinical practice labs and elective courses, a large theater-style 150-person lecture hall, state-of-the-art instructional and simulation facilities, and increased research space that will promote partnership with other researchers in the building, including researchers in the Knight Cancer Institute and the OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine. \u201cThis new facility will have a major impact on the OSU College of Pharmacy\u2019s program on the OHSU campus. It provides dedicated and expanded instructional space and room for additional faculty aimed at providing the best clinical training possible for future pharmacists,\u201d said Ray.<\/p>\n

View more pictures on the College of Pharmacy Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opening celebration of the much-anticipated LEED Certified \u00a0CLSB (Collaborative Life Sciences Building) was held on June 26, 2014 in the South Waterfront in Portland. The CLSB is now home to OSU College of Pharmacy third year students, PSU introductory biology and chemistry classes, and OHSU medical, dental, physician assistant, and radiation technology students. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/beaverx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}