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The Jacob K. Javits Lecture Center also known as Javits Center or Javits for short is the main lecture center at 
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...
, Stony Brook, New York
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. It is located in west campus south of the main Academic Mall. It houses many of the lecture halls in campus and most of the general first-year courses are lectured here. Javits 100 is the largest lecture hall on campus, with 570 seats including a balcony. Other lecture halls include four 103-seat ones and two 218-seat ones.
Javits also houses the primary audio visual services support office.
The Javits Lecture Center underwent major renovation in 2022-2023. The structural engineers that are taking on this project is Leslie E. Robertson Associates. A local labor union protested the usage of out-of-state contractors from New Jersey
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in order to complete the $38 million renovation instead of Long Island workers.
The building notably has zero right angles
In geometry and trigonometry, a right angle is an angle of exactly 90 degrees or radians corresponding to a quarter turn. If a ray is placed so that its endpoint is on a line and the adjacent angles are equal, then they are right angles. T ...
aside from the doors.
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