Bringing down the lab

Meredith Metzler, foreground left, a Cornell Nanoscale Facility (CNF) employee, takes a sledgehammer to the southwest exterior of the old Lester B. Knight Laboratory as the move of the facility into Duffield Hall is concluded. With the CNF lab and office relocation complete, on Nov. 10 the walls of the old Knight Lab began coming down to make way for the final phase of the Duffield Hall project: an atrium that will connect the new high-tech building with Upson Hall on the south and with an atrium stretching to Phillips Hall and Campus Road on the north. The occasion was commemorated with inscribed hammers handed out to the CNF staff, who responded with sound whacks at the 22-year-old walls. Robert Barker/University Photography