The University of Texas at El Paso has opened its new $69.2 million Chemistry and Computer Science Building. The 150,186-square-foot building houses two departments – chemistry and computer science – from two colleges – science and engineering. The facilities are designed to promote collaboration between the two colleges with department offices and labs spread throughout the building.
The building houses:
- the University’s new $1.8 million cryo-electron microscope
- the lab of Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., Robert A. Welch Chair of Chemistry at UTEP. Echegoyen is researching controlling fullerenes’ electron-accepting abilities in order to make solar cells more affordable, self-sustaining sources of renewable energy.
- a computer science immersion space used for full-body, virtual-agent interaction research under David Novick, Ph.D., Mike Loya Distinguished Chair in Engineering and professor of computer science. In the same laboratory suite are rooms used by Nigel Ward, Ph.D., chair of the computer science department, and his students for research on human-computer interactions.
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UTEP’S Health Sciences and Nursing Building Grand Opening [posted Sept. 27, 2011]
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) celebrates the grand opening of its Health Sciences and Nursing Building with a ribbon cutting at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 29 on Wiggins Road. The building will be open to the public during an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 30. The public is asked to RSVP at chs.utep.edu/openhouse.
The $60-million Bhutanese-style structure includes laboratory, classroom and research space, and a 16,000-square-foot Simulation Center where students train in “real life” health scenarios. State-of-the-art research laboratories include the Metabolic, Nutrition and Exercise Research (MINER) Laboratory and the 4,500-square-foot Human Immunology and Infectious Disease Laboratory.
UTEP broke ground on the five-story, 130,000-square-foot facility in November 2008.
UTEP’s new sciences buildings to open June and November [originally posted April, 8 2011]
The University of Texas at El Paso has $153 million worth of construction work happening across campus. Faculty and staff of the Colleges of Health Sciences and Nursing will be making their move into the new $60 million building beginning June 6. It will open to students the following month. The new $70 million building that will house Chemistry and Computer Science will be ready for classes in November. The old nursing building will still be operational. Some programs, mostly graduate programs will remain, according to news reports.
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