"You could say we were forward...

"You could say we were forward a quest to construct the universal laboratory," said Richard Parsons, director of construction programs for Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY

While acknowledging that as it is pursuits are as old -- and familiar -- as brick and mortar, Parsons also believes that the university's of the present day 190,000-sq.-ft. Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) advances as close to the mark as possible. At CAMP, he says, individual lab accommodates all research endeavors -- or at least those seeking to perpendicular the mysteries of physical science.

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