UAF hosting Life Sciences groundbreaking ceremony
March 29, 2011
Marmian Grimes
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3/29/11
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Life Sciences Facility Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 4 p.m.
The event will take place at the construction site, near the Irving Building on the West Ridge of the UAF campus. The public is invited to attend.
When completed, the facility will include 101,000 square feet of teaching and research space. The Life Sciences building is the final in a trio of interconnected buildings, including the State of Alaska Public Health Laboratory and the Biological Research and Diagnostics Facility, that support life science research and teaching on the UAF campus. It is the first new academic laboratory facility at UAF since 1994. The building is slated for completion in early 2014. The $108.6 million project includes a major utilities upgrade to support the building and the replacement of the UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences greenhouse.
Speakers at the event include Alaska Department of Labor Commissioner Click Bishop, UA Regent Tim Brady, UAF Chancellor Brian Rogers, Sen. Joe Thomas, former Reps. Gail Phillips and Mike Kelly, Institute of Arctic Biology Director Brian Barnes and College of Natural Science and Mathematics Dean Paul Layer.
ON THE WEB: http://www.uaf.edu/lifescience/construction/
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