Thursday, more than 150 
students, alumni, faculty, donors 
and community members — 
including 
demonstrators 
— 
gathered in the University of 
Michigan Biological Sciences 
Building for a ribbon cutting 
ceremony and to hear remarks 
from University President Mark 
Schlissel and other campus 
leaders. Interim LSA Dean 
Elizabeth Cole began the event 
by thanking those who have 
dedicated time and resources 
to the building and noted many 
people may not be aware of 
the amount of work and many 
different types of work that 
went into its creation.
“When the college began 
designing this building, they 
recognized 
that 
science 
is 
more 
collaborative 
and 
interdisciplinary than it was 
in the past,” Cole said. “The 
BSB was conceptualized as a 
place that would not only foster 

great innovations in biological 
sciences but would also be 
the kind of space that would 
encourage collaboration and 
would be a bridge for the public 
to explore the research that is 
being done here. Now, as we 
stand here today, this building is 
changing the nature of the work 
we do for faculty, students and 
staff alike, and it’s changing the 
way we achieve our mission to 
share our work with others.”
The 
312,000-square-foot 
building sits near the Central 
Campus 
Transit 
Center 
and the Hill Neighborhood 
bridge. It was approved by 
the 
University’s 
Board 
of 
Regents with a $261 million 
price tag in early 2014 to give 
the Ecology and Evolutionary 
Biology and Molecular, Cellular, 
and 
Developmental 
Biology 
departments a better working 
space than the deteriorating 
104-year-old Kraus Building.
In 2017, the Museum of 
Natural 
History 
announced 
plans to join the EEB and 

MCDB departments in the 
new building, and the building 
now also houses the Museum 
of Paleontology faculty and 
staff. The Ruthven Museums 
Building, 
which 
formerly 
housed the Museum of Natural 
History, 
will 
be 
the 
new 
headquarters 
for 
University 
administration 
when 
the 
Fleming 
Administration 
Building is demolished.
Cole said the building houses 
teaching 
collections, 
the 
museum, offices, classrooms, 
social 
spaces 
and 
labs, 
among other things. She said 
the 
BSB’s 
layout 
enhances 
education quality and allows 
for interactive teaching and 
researching.
Additionally, Cole noted the 
BSB’s “research neighborhoods,” 
which require researchers to 
share space, equipment and ideas. 
She said this is one example of 
collaboration becoming the norm 
in the new building. Like other 
speakers at the event, Cole said 
she hoped the BSB could serve 
as a bridge for the general 
public to see the University’s 
research.
“This space is really an 
opportunity 
for 
visitors 
to connect with science,” 
Cole said. “You can’t deny 
the excitement that the 
new spaces bring, nor the 
immediate impact the BSB 
has already had on that 
promise. And I’m thrilled 
by the potential and the 
possibility that are held in 
this space, and I think you 
will be, too, as you get to see 
it.”
Schlissel 
began 
his 
remarks by acknowledging 
the 
alumni 
and 
donors 
present at the event. He 
said 
the 
University 
has 
been a leader in the past, 
and this building will help 
the University tackle the 
biological questions of the 
future.
Schlissel 
also 
said 
the 
University’s 
many 
disciplines, resources and 
tools position it to redefine 
boundaries and help broaden 

understanding of the natural 
world and biological problems. 
The BSB in particular will make 
the University’s work accessible to 
the general public, Schlissel said.
“I am confident that this 
building and its resources will 
bring us closer to answering 
some 
of 
life 
science’s 
most 
pressing questions of today and 
of 
tomorrow,” 
Schlissel 
said. 
“It 
represents 
our 
enduring 
commitment to better understand 
the world around us.”
Schlissel 
thanked 
his 
predecessor, staff and regents for 
their ongoing support and said the 
ribbon cutting launched a new era 
of discovery at the University.
When 
Schlissel 
began 
his 
remarks, climate demonstrators 
displayed 
posters 
relating 
to 
climate 
change, 
the 
Climate 
Action 
Movement, 
carbon 
neutrality 
and 
fossil 
fuels 
from the second floor directly 
behind Schlissel’s podium. The 
Climate Action Movement has 
been critical of Schlissel for not 
committing the University to 
carbon neutrality by 2030, the 
inclusion of representatives from 
statewide energy providers on 
his President’s Commission on 
Carbon Neutrality and for the 
University’s decision not to divest 
from companies that produce 
fossil fuels.
The Climate Action Movement 
organized 
the 
March 
15 
Washtenaw 
County 
Climate 
Strike, which brought upwards 
of 3,000 people to the Diag, and 
a subsequent sit-in at Schlissel’s 
office, which led to 10 arrests.
In an email to The Daily 
following an April 9 special public 
session, at which none of their 
demands were met, some student 
demonstrators present at the event 
wrote they felt they needed to 
take more visible and potentially 
disruptive actions.
“The 
Museum 
of 
Natural 
History is dedicated to studying, 
preserving, and teaching about 
ecology, biodiversity and life on 
Earth,” the email read. 

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members who were showing their discontent for a lot of the things that have been 
happening regarding climate change and carbon neutrality practices on this campus. I 
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place where everyone feels they have a home and they belong ... 
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heart of campus … so what we’re saying is that’s in the heart of 
who we are, what we do and what we’re committed to … For me, 
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