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Facilities: Center for Bioscience Education and Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology, already an acknowledged national leader in bioscience and career-focused education, has partnered with New York State to build the Center for Bioscience Education and Technology (CBET) a 35,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility. The CBET will allow RIT to expand its multi-faceted academic and training programs and to produce a new generation of graduates with the specialized skills needed to meet emerging career opportunities in the life sciences and to drive future bioscience innovation and discovery for the 21^st century.

For more than three decades the university has offered a wide array of pertinent and cutting-edge academic programs, including biotechnology, environmental science, bioinformatics, physician assistant, biomedical computing, biochemistry and diagnostic medical sonography. Several of these programs enjoy “first in the nation” status, demonstrating clearly that RIT is a university that consistently tailors its academic offerings to respond quickly and aggressively to new technological advances, while also addressing emergent national and international workforce needs.

This new building will allow RIT to expand its traditional undergraduate programs in the biosciences; introduce new academic programs; and offer specialized certificate programs, customized workshops and seminars, and continuing education programs for the bioscience and healthcare industries. The facility will also support community education programs, including those aimed at encouraging K-12 students to pursue careers in science, medicine, technology and mathematics.

The CBET houses three “Functional Centers” of bioscience education, innovation and excellence:

• The Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Center for Bioscience Exploration and Discovery consists of four sophisticated, high-tech teaching laboratories and one “smart” classroom used by RIT students during the academic year and for K-12 teacher training, student workshops and continuing education programs on weekends, evenings and throughout the summer months. Supported by a 10-year, $2 million grant, from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, the Excellus Center will always be fully equipped with the most modern, cutting-edge technology.
• The Center for Bioscience Workforce Training consists of a bioprocessing, bioremediation and biomanufacturing laboratory suite that is fully equipped for offering professional workshops, seminars, and unique certificate programs developed to train or retrain workers for the burgeoning health sciences and biotechnology industries.
• The Center for Multidisciplinary Bioscience Research features a substantial laboratory suite that functions as a collaborative research space where students will work side-by-side with faculty mentors to develop the technical and problem-solving skills needed by the biomedical research scientists of the 21st century.