Smart Energy Building

A State-Of-The-Art Research Center

The Chemistry Department moved into a new home, the Smart Energy Building, in the summer of 2017. This is a state-of-the-art $70 million, 114,000 square-foot research facility, which will accommodate research and development initiatives for the departments of chemistry and physics. The building includes space for faculty, students, and industry scientists and engineers to work side-by-side to create new energy and other cutting-edge technologies, and maintain and expand the regional workforce.

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’s Smart Energy Building at its Innovative Technologies Complex has achieved LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

Smart Energy Building that open in the summer of 2017, pictured here, September 7, 2017.
Smart Energy Building that open in the summer of 2017, pictured here, September 7, 2017.
Smart Energy Building that open in the summer of 2017, pictured here, September 7, 2017.
Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, Wednesday, August 16, 2017.
Students around the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, Thursday, June 14, 2018.
The celebration of the generosity of Lisa C. Beck and her giving to in memory of her husband Jeffrey Beck ’84, Friday, September 6, 2019. The ceremony took place at the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, which a the “Jeffrey S. Beck and Lisa C. Beck Laboratory” was named.
Louis Piper, Associate Professor and Wei-Cheng Lee, Assistant Professor, both in the department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy at Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, photographed at the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, September 28, 2017.
President Harvey Stenger, Provost Don Nieman, New York State Senator Frederick Akshar and New York State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, MA '83, deliever their remarks during the grand opening ceremony of the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, Thursday, August 31, 2017. Pictured here, William H Hall III, Architectural Supervisor with Physical Facilties, leads a tour of the building.
President Harvey Stenger, Provost Don Nieman, New York State Senator Frederick Akshar and New York State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, MA '83, deliever their remarks during the grand opening ceremony of the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, Thursday, August 31, 2017.
Chemistry students and faculty move into the Smart Energy Building at the Innovative Technologies Complex, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. Graduate students Daniel Isika and Julien Viel unpack chromatography columns at Eriks Rozners, Professor, Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry laboratory.
Shazaib Idrees of Westchester Community College and a SUNY Upstate Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program scholar, learns about gold nanoparticles as sensor material for biosensor development from Chuan-Jian Zhong, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Program Committee in the chemistry department and Zhong’s graduate student Jing Li at his new laboratory at the Smart Energy Research and Development Building, June 7, 2018.
Mark Tettey, a Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program scholar from Westchester Community College works with Omowunmi Sadik, Professor of Chemistry & Jefferson Science Fellow 2017-2018, and postdoc Francis Osonga on finding green synthesis of gold flavonoids of gold nanoparticles, Friday, June 15, 2018 at the Smart Energy Building.
Chuan-Jian Zhong, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program Committee at the department of Chemistry in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, photographed at his new laboratory in the Smart Energy Building, Friday, July 20, 2018.
Rebecca Agosto Matos of Onondaga Community College and a scholar of the SUNY Upstate Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, works with graduate student Chetan Joshi at the Smart Energy Building, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
Rebecca Agosto Matos of Onondaga Community College and a scholar of the SUNY Upstate Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, works with graduate student Chetan Joshi at the Smart Energy Building, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
Causwell Hyde, a student of Onondaga Community College and a scholar of the SUNY Upstate Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, works with Omowunmi Sadik, Professor of Chemistry & Jefferson Science Fellow 2017-2018; Director, CREATES formerly CASE and graduate student Gaddi Eshun at the Smart Energy Building, Wednesday, June 5, 2019.