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Ohio University Trustees Invest Over $40
Million in Region
Ohio
University will enter the new millennium
by investing more than $43 million in the
southeast part of the state in the form of
"smart" classrooms, state-of-the art
research buildings, high-tech training and
conference space, and an expanded child
care facility for local residents and
university personnel.
The
university's Board of Trustees today also
backed a decision to invest up to $2
million in a venture capital fund targeted
to support entrepreneurs in the state's
Appalachian region.
Of
the seven projects approved by Trustees,
four are renovations of buildings based on
The Ridges, a satellite campus overlooking
Athens and Ohio University. They will
house the George V. Voinovich Center, the
Institute for Local Government
Administration and Rural Development
(ILGARD), a Conference/Training Center,
and the Ohio University Child Development
Center.
Trustees
also approved construction of two research
buildings:
- The
Biochemistry Research Facility, to be
located on West State Street in Athens,
will house state-of-the-art
laboratories for research in life
sciences. Supported in part by a $1.4
million National Institutes of Health
grant, the $5.6 million facility will
house faculty embarking on cutting-edge
research in such areas as protein
structure, genetic regulation and RNA
structure.
- The
$19.3 million Life Sciences Facility on
the West Green will house researchers
from the College of Arts and Sciences
and the College of Osteopathic Medicine
and is slated to open in the fall of
2001.
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