Employees for Turner Construction Co. raise the first beams Oct. 11 on MTSU’s new $147 million Science Building. The new building will provide more than 250,000 gross square feet of teaching, faculty and student research laboratories and collaborative learning spaces. Spring 2015 is the expected completion date for the project. The project was placed on the Tennessee Board of Regents capital outlay priority list in 1998, and remained MTSU’s and the TBR’s No. 1 priority on the list, as well as the Tennessee Higher Education Commission’s highest priority on its five-year capital projects plan. The university’s existing Wiser-Patten and Davis science buildings were built in 1932 and 1967, respectively, and have only 75,332 net square feet. Turner Construction Co. is headquartered in New York City and has a local office in Brentwood, Tenn.
Middle Tennessee State University is applauding Gov. Bill Haslam’s Jan. 30 announcement that the University’s $126.7 million Science Building project has been included in his proposed 2012-13 budget. “We are grateful to Governor Haslam for recognizing the importance of the Science Building project and including funding for its construction in this…
MTSU plays a major role in the upcoming Tennessee STEAM Festival, which aims to attract youngsters to the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. Events that are open to the public will occur at on- and off-campus venues during the third annual festival, scheduled Oct. 10-21. The state…
Civic-minded MTSU students, faculty and staff lined up Thursday on campus to celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. The world’s longest surviving written charter of government was signed Sept. 17, 1787, ratified in 1788 and in operation since 1789. The MTSU community celebrated Constitution Day…
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