Academic Facilities | Soka University of America
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Academic Facilities | Soka University of America
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Our Academic Facilities
Designed with environmental impact in mind, Soka University’s academic facilities encourage the hands-on exploration of topics as diverse as gardening and astronomy to ceramics and language studies.
Soka Instructional Garden (SIG)
The Soka Instructional Garden is used by students to supplement academic courses and programs.
Creative Arts Facilities
Soka offers five types of creative spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses.
Luis and Linda Nieves Observatory
Opened in 2019, the Nieves Observatory at Soka University of America was generously funded by Luis and Linda Nieves.
Explore Our Academic Facilities
Our
scientific research laboratories
provide a space for research as well as instruction on various research subjects and areas.
The
Soka Instructional Garden
supports academic programs through instruction in composting and gardening and serves as a venue to learn and practice these skills in an environmentally friendly, healthy, and safe manner.
The mission of the
Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility
is to support the teaching of sustainable aquaculture, the appreciation of aquatic organisms, and aquatic research at SUA.
Professor M. Robert Hamersley’s research interest
is in the aquatic cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other macro-elements as mediated by plants and bacteria. His work spans aquatic environments from wetlands and lakes to estuaries and the open ocean.
Marie and Pierre Curie Hall
is a state-of-the-art 91,370 square foot facility that includes five teaching labs, 14 research labs, a lecture hall, and a mix of office and interaction spaces.
The
Nieves Observatory
provides a hands-on experience for students to observe the cosmos through Soka’s telescope.
The
Creative Arts Studios
provide spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses to work on their creative projects throughout the semester. Students using the facilities, which include labs for photography, ceramics, painting, music, and dance, are able to fulfill the learning outcomes of completing creative artwork, developing tools of creativity, and improving general creative processes.
The
Global Language and Culture Center (GLCC)
is a dynamic cultural hub at SUA, providing comprehensive resources, activities, and tutoring to facilitate transformative encounters with diverse languages and cultures.
Explore Soka
Learn about why sustainability is important to Soka, book a tour to visit campus, and discover what topics and hypotheses our faculty are researching and testing.
Sustainability
Tour Campus
Faculty Research Interests
Skip to main content
Our Academic Facilities
Designed with environmental impact in mind, Soka University’s academic facilities encourage the hands-on exploration of topics as diverse as gardening and astronomy to ceramics and language studies.
Soka Instructional Garden (SIG)
The Soka Instructional Garden is used by students to supplement academic courses and programs.
Creative Arts Facilities
Soka offers five types of creative spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses.
Luis and Linda Nieves Observatory
Opened in 2019, the Nieves Observatory at Soka University of America was generously funded by Luis and Linda Nieves.
Explore Our Academic Facilities
Our
scientific research laboratories
provide a space for research as well as instruction on various research subjects and areas.
The
Soka Instructional Garden
supports academic programs through instruction in composting and gardening and serves as a venue to learn and practice these skills in an environmentally friendly, healthy, and safe manner.
The mission of the
Soka Instructional Aquaculture Facility
is to support the teaching of sustainable aquaculture, the appreciation of aquatic organisms, and aquatic research at SUA.
Professor M. Robert Hamersley’s research interest
is in the aquatic cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other macro-elements as mediated by plants and bacteria. His work spans aquatic environments from wetlands and lakes to estuaries and the open ocean.
Marie and Pierre Curie Hall
is a state-of-the-art 91,370 square foot facility that includes five teaching labs, 14 research labs, a lecture hall, and a mix of office and interaction spaces.
The
Nieves Observatory
provides a hands-on experience for students to observe the cosmos through Soka’s telescope.
The
Creative Arts Studios
provide spaces for students enrolled in CARTS courses to work on their creative projects throughout the semester. Students using the facilities, which include labs for photography, ceramics, painting, music, and dance, are able to fulfill the learning outcomes of completing creative artwork, developing tools of creativity, and improving general creative processes.
The
Global Language and Culture Center (GLCC)
is a dynamic cultural hub at SUA, providing comprehensive resources, activities, and tutoring to facilitate transformative encounters with diverse languages and cultures.
Explore Soka
Learn about why sustainability is important to Soka, book a tour to visit campus, and discover what topics and hypotheses our faculty are researching and testing.
Sustainability
Tour Campus
Faculty Research Interests