NIOSH “L” building marks 25 years of innovative research

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• Personal Author:
  Blank, Anne
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  During this year commemorating the NIOSH 50th anniversary, another family milestone is approaching. October 19 marks the 25th anniversary of a close, though lesser-known, NIOSH relative: a building on the Morgantown, West Virginia campus.
  
  At its inception in 1996, the “L” building, so-called due to its resemblance to that particular letter, was groundbreaking, literally and figuratively, in the field of occupational safety and health research. With 167,000 square feet of laboratory space stocked with the latest scientific equipment, the L building created hundreds of new jobs when it joined the original NIOSH “H” building—again, so-called due to its alphabetic contours—built in 1971 [1]. Importantly, the L building facilitated a major expansion of NIOSH research from epidemiological studies, or the frequency and causes of work-related illness and injury, to basic research of the biological processes that occur in response to workplace hazards. Today, this expansion continues to advance our understanding of workplace safety and health.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events Buildings And Facilities CDC--history History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Laboratories NIOSH--history Occupational Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Blogs
• Place as Subject:
  Morgantown, WV
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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