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Science

Physical address

1745 Jefferson Avenue [map]

Do not send mail to this address. The mailing address for all UW Tacoma offices is 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402-3100.

Building hours

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Classrooms and academic space

Biology Lab – SCI 211

Biology Lab – SCI 217

Chemistry Lab – SCI 311

Chemistry Lab – SCI 309

Chemistry Lab – SCI 317

Classroom – SCI 105

Computer Classroom – SCI 108

Computer Classroom – SCI 109

Computer Classroom – SCI 111

Computer Lab – SCI 106

Geology Lab – SCI 209

Marine Ecology & Invertebrates Lab – SCI 236

Physics Lab – SCI 137

Meeting and event spaces

Conference Room – SCI 104

Building history

Built 2001

In the late 1880s several residences, including a lodging house, were built on this site, but were torn down some time afterward. In 1949 a two-story reinforced concrete building erected here housed a motor parts store and an oil filter service company. It was demolished before construction of the Science Building.

The first of two new-construction projects on the UW Tacoma campus, the Science Building was designed by Moore Ruble Yudell of Santa Monica, California, and LMN Architects of Seattle to blend in with the nearby historic brick buildings. A skybridge links the Science and Keystone buildings above Hood Street, where the original railroad terminus that linked Tacoma to the transcontinental railroad once brought trains through what is now the campus. The rail line was discontinued in 2003, when the Link Light Rail line was constructed on Pacific Avenue.