About the Leinweber Building
Located on the North Campus of the University of Michigan, the five-story, 163,000-square-foot Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building, opened in the Summer of 2025, opens the door for for the development of exciting new collaborations, breakthrough technologies, innovative research, and state-of-the-art STEM teaching opportunities.
In 2019, the design firm of Pelli Clarke & Partners was retained to design the building with an external appearance that would mesh with that of the adjacent Bob and Betty Beyster Building. Plans for the $145M building were publicly announced on October 21, 2021, after the U-M Regents voted to approve the building’s name. Site preparation for the building and construction began in April 2022, and an official groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 19, 2022. The building was approved for occupancy in May 2025.
The Leinweber Building is now home to the main operations and graduate programs of the University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI), bringing most operations under one roof after a period of rapid growth saw the school expand across five smaller facilities. UMSI continues to maintain undergraduate operations on U-M’s Central Campus in the North Quad Building.
The building physically extends the Bob and Betty Beyster Building, the home of the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Division of U-M’s College of Engineering, through passageways on the first, second, third, and fourth floors. In addition to housing UMSI, the Leinweber building also houses a portion of CSE’s faculty, graduate students, and labs, as well as some of the College of Engineering’s largest classrooms.
By co-locating UMSI and CSE, the Leinweber Building eliminates the need for top talent to choose between working in a CSE or UMSI environment and removes barriers between like-minded colleagues. This strengthens the academic culture, promoting a fusion of human-centered and technical perspectives in critical areas such as artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, information privacy and security, and more.