Case Western Reserve Opens $300 Million Susi Research Building
Case Western Reserve University has officially opened the $300 million Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building, a new facility designed to house researchers from across disciplines to tackle complex science and engineering problems. The grand opening also served as the launch of…
Cleveland Akron, OH, October 22, 2026 —
Case Western Reserve University has opened the $300 million Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building, a facility intended to bring researchers from different fields together to work on complex science and engineering problems.
The university’s grand opening of the building also marked the launch of its $2.5 billion Breakthrough Point fundraising campaign. The opening and campaign launch were announced as part of the same event.
The building is designed to house researchers from across disciplines. The university’s stated aim for the facility is to support collaboration on problems that span scientific and engineering fields. Further details about the research groups that will use the building, its specific facilities, or when researchers will begin working there were not provided.
The campaign’s stated target is $2.5 billion. Information about its duration, fundraising priorities, or how much had been raised at launch was not provided. The university also did not provide details about how the building’s $300 million cost was financed.
The announcement did not specify the date of the grand opening or provide remarks from university officials. It also did not describe any planned milestones for the building or the fundraising campaign. The opening establishes the facility as a new university resource, while the campaign launch sets out a separate fundraising goal; additional information about both initiatives was not included in the announcement.
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