Madison — When it opens in December, the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will be a showcase of high-tech design and model of collaboration.

The public/private research center under construction in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus features a circular auditorium for as many as 300 people, with walls that can be lifted into the ceiling, modular research neighborhoods with "plug-and-play" fume hoods and lab sinks, and clusters of casual seating beneath four-story high skylights.

These and other design elements embody the urge that is driving one of the country's most advanced interdisciplinary research hubs.

Developers see the institutes as a place where a diverse group of researchers from the UW-Madison campus and beyond will mix with each other and with industrial partners to tackle technical problems in new and unexpected ways.

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Author: Kathleen Gallagher