Education

Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences / Photos by Janice Checchio and Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Boston – Suffolk announced it has successfully delivered the Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences. The 19-story, 345,000sf facility, which is the tallest building on Boston University’s urban Charles River campus, is the university’s most energy-efficient building and one of the most sustainable buildings in Massachusetts.

The facility itself is designed with intellectual collaboration in mind, featuring an all-glass interior that creates transparency and invites light deep into the building. The unique design of the structure, which is composed of a series of floorplates shifted and cantilevered around the building’s central core, creates a vertically stacked and staggered layout of “neighborhoods” for each academic discipline.

The Boston University Center for Computing & Data Sciences building is the first of its kind on the school’s campus and in the city of Boston. It is 100% fossil fuel free due to a geothermal bore system installed by Suffolk. The Suffolk team drilled and installed 31 bores, each approximately 1,500 feet deep into the earth, or approximately twice as deep as the tallest structure in Boston is high. The bores harness the thermal resources of the earth to heat and cool the building without the need to connect to a gas line, putting Boston University ahead of schedule for Carbon Free Boston, the city’s 2050 carbon neutrality goal.

The new facility also features triple-glazed windows that help contain heat inside the building, staircases that reduce elevator use and promote energy reduction, and terraces and green roofs that offer views and reduce the urban heat island effect.

The new building will be home to Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences interdisciplinary academic unit, as well as a number of other departments and faculty members from throughout the university.

Brockton, MA – Massasoit Community College is celebrating the opening of the new South Shore Bank Center for Data Science and Analytics. The new center will serve as a resource for the college’s new data science transfer program, providing a dedicated space for the study of data science and the technology resources needed for in-person classes, lectures, student study, and research. The center was made possible by South Shore Bank to make data science study accessible to community college students and to replenish the workforce with new talent.

The South Shore Bank Center for Data Science and Analytics at Massasoit is designed to provide students with stateof-the-art technology to enhance study and student collaboration. It features a new 75-inch interactive touchscreen display and a new 43-inch display panel in the student workshop area. Students will be using the Python language and the IDLE and Anaconda navigator integrated development environments. Students in the data science transfer program will take classes in data science, Python programming language, data visualization, data structures, and algorithms. The center provides the environment and resources for Massasoit students to complete the first two years of study toward a bachelor’s degree in data science, which saves them considerable costs when compared to enrolling in a four-year program.

“South Shore Bank is proud to help provide access to valuable data science and analytics training to Massasoit’s students,” said South Shore Bank CEO James Dunphy. “We are supporting those interested in earning degrees and pursuing careers with opportunity while helping our industry attract the brightest and best-trained workers for the future.”

“The knowledge and experience

(l -r): Janet Brown-Sederberg, Massasoit computer science professor; Dr. Michael Roggow, dean of Massasoit’s Business & Technology Department; Ray DiPasquale, Massasoit president; James Dunphy; Chris McGowan; and Ann Sullivan, Massasoit Trustee Massasoit’s students will gain in this classroom are readily transferable to real world use. There’s a need for trained data science and analytics professionals, not only at South Shore Bank, but it’s also a growing field,” added Chris McGowan, chief data and robotics automation officer, South Shore Bank.