university labs

Campus research spaces

University labs are research facilities housed within academic institutions, where faculty, graduate students, and researchers conduct experiments and investigations.

The term covers everything from chemistry labs with beakers and fume hoods to computer science labs with server racks.

She spent three years in a university lab before joining the private sector.

Labs often operate under a principal investigator's direction and may receive government or corporate funding.

Related

graduate students · microscopes · lab technicians · experimentation · prototyping · professors · spectrometers · postdocs · late nights · data analysis · grants · research grants · researchers · reagents · research centers · documentation · computers · innovation

Categories
Opposites
instructional space type

university labslecture halls

Rooms for academic addresses

lecture theaters · auditoriums · classrooms · seminar rooms · amphitheaters

research setting

university labsindustrial labs

Commercial scientific research facilities

national laboratories

learning environment formality

university labsfield work

Research outside the office

on-the-job training · apprenticeships · maker spaces · school of hard knocks

Family

university

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G