The Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, informally known as the Moos Tower is a building on the

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of the

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campus in

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. Inside Moos Tower are labs and faculty offices for the College of Dentistry and a

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with a designated study lounge. The entrance of Biomedical library can also be found in Moos Tower. Moos Tower is the tallest building on the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. It is a noted example of

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History

The building is named for

Malcolm Moos Malcolm Charles Moos (April 19, 1916 – January 28, 1982) was an American political scientist, speechwriter and academic administrator. He was a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University for two decades. As a speechwriter, Moos w ...

, who was president of the University from 1967 to 1974. Moos Tower was designed by

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as well as Cerny and Associates, HGA, and Setter Leach and Lindstrom in about 1970.

References

External links

Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower page on the University of Minnesota website
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