Missouri University of Science and Technology will celebrate the opening of and officially dedicate its 50,000-square-foot Innovation Lab this Thursday

Missouri University of Science and Technology will celebrate the opening of and officially dedicate its 50,000-square-foot Innovation Lab this Thursday. The dedication will take place at 4 PM. The Innovation Lab is located on the S&T campus at 650 Tim Bradley Way, directly south of the Havener Center. Parking is available in the subsurface parking garage at 699 Tim Bradley Way. A reception will be held immediately following the dedication. The Innovation Lab is the first new building on the S&T campus to realize the Kummer Institute’s vision for student innovation and entrepreneurship. The Kummer Institute was established immediately following the transformational $300 million gift made to the university by the late Fred and June Kummer in 2020. Fred Kummer earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1955. The gift was inspired in part by a desire to prepare S&T students to excel as entrepreneurs and innovators in a global economy that’s increasingly driven by technology. The Innovation Lab marks the entrance to S&T’s Arrival District and includes maker spaces, modular classrooms, collaborative labs, and a soaring central atrium, all designed to exude the energy of a hands-on learning environment and inspire possibility thinkers, discoverers, and trailblazers in their quest to transform the status quo into solutions to the problems of the future.