Purdue University Hobart & Russell Creighton Hall of Animal Sciences

Enhancing Animal Studies at Creighton Hall

The Creighton Hall of Animal Sciences is a transformative environment to encourage collaboration and engagement among peers with diverse interests. The new facility consolidates the Animal Sciences program into a cohesive complex, divided into two distinct sections: a three-story teaching and research laboratory wing (Creighton Hall) and a two-story animal studies wing (Land O’ Lakes Center).

The animal studies wing features a 6,800 sq. ft. arena for classes and show events involving large agricultural animals – cattle, sheep, pigs, etc., and telescoping bleachers with a capacity for 200 people. Additional features include a large animal holding room, a meat processing abattoir, two meat-cutting classrooms, two sample labs, a smokehouse and packaging suite, a research kitchen, and a public retail shop. The entire second level of the wing is dedicated to MEP support of the facility, with the AHUs located in the basement of the adjacent lab wing.