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Some new, one old, and others on the way, ranging from the 11-story, windowless agronomy building
to the truncated icosahedron which will house the cosmic ray shower observatory.
Cosmic ray shower observation equipment now in box-shaped building (right) will be housed in the novel 16-faced building
(left), a truncated icosahedron designed by Prof. Kenneth Greisen, PhD '43, and colleagues. Located some 15 miles from Ithaca,
the structure, painted in five vivid colors, provides the equivalent of a bug's-eye view for the photo-tubes looking at the sky.
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Girders are placed for the roof of the laboratory building
to be used with the 10-billion electron volt synchrotron
being built more than 40 feet underneath Upper Alumni
Field.
Four departments—plant breeding, botany, agronomy,
and vegetable crops—will use a complex of controlled environmental
rooms, laboratories, and greenhouses, now
going up on Caldwell Field.
Formerly occupied by Phi Kappa Sigma and then Delta,
Delta, Delta, 626 Thurston Avenue, with a completely remodeled
interior, is now Alumni House—home of Alumni
Records, the Alumni Secretaries, and the NEWS.
The center for Radiophysics & Space Research, dwarfing
the Big Red Barn, left, is now occupied and complete except
for minor details.
PHOTOS BY FRED MOHN
May 1967
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