The 105,000 SF Linus Pauling Science Center is the most expensive academic building project in OSU's history. The five-story science center houses the renowned Linus Pauling Institute and chemists from the College of Science. The center includes a vivarium, a 175 seat auditorium, an instrument suite with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) & electron microscopy equipment, chemistry lab space, a cancer/chemo protection lab, metabolic/cardiovascular disease lab, healthy aging programming laboratory and administration space.