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Center for the Sciences nearing completion
The $40-million building will open next summer
Eimantas Kiseliovas / Roundup
The Center for the Sciences building, located next to the Mason parking lot, will be available for use by students and teachers this summer, according to senior project manager Andrew Ramsay.
Ramsay said the building, costing $40.25 million, will house the chemistry, physics, life sciences, nursing, veterinary technology, planetary science and geology departments.
The Center for the Sciences will have new and more spacious labs for students as well as stadium seating classrooms, a courtyard and a planetarium for the planetary sciences department.
It will also include animal facilities featuring cages to shelter animals and a surgery room.
Dr. Izzy Goodman, chair of the chemistry department and head of the user group for the Center of the Sciences, is very excited about this project.
“It’s going to be state of the art,” he said.
The building will include safer facilities and will have classrooms with capacities of 60, 75 and 100 students, Goodman added.
The Center for the Sciences building was supposed to be open for use in the spring semester of 2010. Due to design problems and structural issues dating back to 2008, Ramsay said the availability of the building has been pushed to the summer of 2010.
Student Adam Benghiat said he’s excited about the new building and didn’t even know there was going to be a planetarium or, better yet, a surgery room for animals.
