Jorgensen Research Building

Located on the campus of the United States Academy of Extranormal Studies on the opposite edge of the Academy Forest from the USAES Old Campus, the Jorgensen Research Building, or  'JRC' , is the location of the USAES Mental Enhancement Program.

The building is seven stories tall, with three subterranean floors (the bottom floor is designed for high-level psionic testing, and is therefore built to specifications closely resembling Zero Area). The top two floors of the JRC are residence floors; they are reinforced in construction, with special dampener systems and other security systems to accommodate cadets and other individuals who have severe psionic power-control issues and need to be placed in protective quarters for the safety of themselves and others.

Construction of the building was begun in 1960 and completed in July 1962; President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy (the U.S. Attorney General) were in attendance at the official opening of the facility on August 1, 1962. This was considered an especially prestigious event, as both Kennedy brothers were psi-actives and were met with open arms by the psi-active personnel.

Major renovations to the JRC were made in the early 1980s and in the mid-2000s.

A decades-long tall tale concerning the JRC is that it was built on its location expressly for the purpose of annoying the faculty and cadets of the USAES Mystical Enhancement Program, as they have had a rivalry with the program all the way back to the founding of the Academy, when the psi-active cadets were part of the now-disbanded USAES Special Communications Program.