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10/15/07
SLU'S JOHNSON HALL OF SCIENCE DEDICATION OCTOBER 20
CANTON - The public is invited to dedication ceremonies to be held at St. Lawrence
University's Johnson Hall of Science on Saturday, October 20, at noon. An open house
for the community will be held following the ceremony, and tours of the facility
will be available.
The building is the largest construction project in the University's history
and opened with the start of the fall 2007 semester. The $36.9-million,
115,000-square-foot building features modern, spacious state-of-the-art facilities
including teaching labs, research labs, conference rooms, departmental and
faculty offices and informal student spaces that will transform the teaching
of science at St. Lawrence.
It has been planned with the latest advantages of sustainable design, or "green"
architecture, to qualify for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
certification. This is especially important because St. Lawrence has affirmed,
through a resolution of its Board of Trustees, that the University's core values
include a commitment to environmental awareness, environmental education and
the pursuit of environmental sustainability in its operations.
President Daniel F. Sullivan has signed the American College and University
Presidents Climate Commitment, joining the University with hundreds of American
colleges and universities in committing to "carbon neutrality" in its campus
operations.
In 2002, Trustee Sarah E. Johnson Redlich, of Burlingame, California, gave the
University what was then and is still the largest gift in its history, $10 million for
improvement of science facilities. It is in her honor that the facility is named.
In 2007, she gave St. Lawrence an additional $1 million to equip the facility.
The University also successfully met a
challenge issued by the Kresge Foundation,
raising over $4.5 million in new gifts and pledges for the project by April 2007,
resulting in a grant from the Foundation for an additional $1 million.
The project benefits several of St. Lawrence's life science departments - biology,
chemistry and
psychology - as well as two new and popular interdisciplinary majors,
biochemistry and
neuroscience. All students, both those majoring in the sciences
and those who are non-science majors, will benefit from the presence and
accessibility of the facility and its equipment, and the educational opportunities
they will provide.
Lead architects for the project are KlingStubbins, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Working with KlingStubbins are two specialty firms, Croxton Collaborative
Architects, PC, of New York City, a firm that has originated and developed much
of the practice of environmental/sustainable and human-centered architecture and
design; and Research Facilities Design (RFD), a San Diego-based firm specializing
exclusively in the programming and design of teaching and research laboratory
facilities for college, university, industry and government clients. General
contractors are Northland Associates, of Liverpool, New York.
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