John T. Hayden Hall is a 150,000-sq. ft, state-of-the-art science facility in the heart of the Boston College campus, featuring The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, the Departments of Engineering and Computer Science, and the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship.
John T. Hayden Hall Features:
- The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science in Society
- The Human-Centered Engineering Department
- The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship
- The Computer Science Department
- Research and office space for 22 principal investigators
- Maker spaces for student prototyping research
- Teaching labs with computer science robotics & data visualization space
- Collaboration Commons for faculty and students
- A clean room
- Classrooms and an auditorium
Video Tour
Join BC students Margaret Hynes '25, Charles Coughlin '26, and Sancia Sehdev '25 on a tour of John T. Hayden Hall, the centerpiece of Boston College's $300 million strategic investment in the sciences.
Photo Gallery
Engineering Chair Glenn Gaudette at work in the new facility.
The $150-million building is the largest single investment in the sciences at Boston College.
Brainstorming in the third floor Makers Lab space.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Luke Perreault, PhD, working in the laboratory on decellularized spinach leaves as scaffolds for cell growth.
An exterior view of the building, designed by the architectural firm Payette and constructed by Suffolk.
Avneet Hira's, "Introduction to Human-Centered Engineering," held in the Makers Labs..
The new Integrated Science building on Boston College's main campus after the first major snowfall of the season.
View from inside 245 Beacon Street
Michael McDannald, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, teaching, "Behavioral Neuroscience" in auditorium 107.
Students working in a maker lab.
John T. Hayden Hall is a hub for student and faculty engagement at the intersections of Boston College's varied strengths in the disciplines and the frontiers of science and technology.
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Academic leaders praise BC's new hub for science, engineering, technology, and entrepreneurship.
“ There is general excitement that there is something really new here and something that is going to make an impact, both on campus and in the world. You can sense that when you walk in the building. ”
Human-Centered Engineering at BC
The openness of John T. Hayden Hall helps entice collaborations, especially from different academic departments The goal is to enable the development of solutions to the problems facing humanity.
