Science II dedication March 11

A dedication ceremony for the Science II Building will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 11. Tours of the building will be available after the ceremony.

On Saturday, March 12, a public open house for the community will be held.

A point of interest is the new mural on the west side of the building that is being developed by freelance illustrator Laura Cunningham.

The new $22 million Science II Building, which opened on the first day of the spring semester, is the largest academic building completed on campus since the Kremen School of Education Building in 1994.

The new classrooms can serve close to 900 students at any one time and will open up many new research opportunities, said Dr. Robert Levine, associate dean of the College of Science and Mathematics.

“There are ample and first-rate laboratory facilities for Earth and Environmental Science, Physics and Psychology that will open up many new research opportunities for both our students and faculty,” said Levine.

 The building houses departments from the College of Science and Math along with the Criminology Department from the College of Social Sciences. In addition, other departments also hold classes in the building.

The 71,000-square-foot building includes lecture halls and instructional labs for earth and environmental sciences and psychology classes, the Science and Mathematics dean's complex, and graduate research and special instructional areas for the physics department to support the research needs of the Downing Planetarium. In addition, the new building provides space for 109 faculty offices.