You could assume that a new laboratory building for an Ivy League institution would be state-of-the-art. So it is not surprising that Brown University’s recently completed $88 million Engineering Research Center (ERC) provides top-notch facilities. The three-story, 81,000-square-foot building, designed by the Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake, sits near the eastern edge of the Providence, Rhode Island, campus and contains 22 highly flexible laboratories, a set of clean rooms for the study of nanoscale materials, microelectronics, and photonics, and a high-performance imaging suite.