The building’s programming includes active-learning classrooms, ophthalmic optics, geometric optics, methods labs, a surgery suite, practice testing lanes, and a special procedures suite housing lasers, visual field, ocular photography, and ultrasound diagnostic instrumentation. It also features student lounges with multi-story floor-to-ceiling windows that provide sweeping views of the Appalachian Mountains. Faculty offices bridge the learning spaces and the lounges, creating opportunities for faculty and student interaction.

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