AASU to Dedicate Science Center

SAVANNAH, GA—Armstrong Atlantic State University will hold a ceremony on November 22 to dedicate its recently completed Science Center— two buildings joined by a glass sky bridge —housing the School of Computing and the chemistry, biology, engineering, physics, and psychology programs. The event will be held at 11:30 A.M. on the grounds of the Science Center.

The Science Center, measuring 126,056 square feet, anchors the southeast corner of the campus and represents the largest single increase in instructional space since the initial construction of the campus in 1966.

Speakers will include Armstrong Atlantic President Thomas Z. Jones; Raymond Greenlaw, dean of the School of Computing; Ed R. Wheeler, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Forrest Lott, Lott & Barber Architects; and John R. Butler, executive secretary and director of the Construction Division of the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission. A tour of the Science Center will be given at the conclusion of the ceremony.

A Foucault pendulum will be on permanent display in the tower of the Science Center. The pendulum was a former science exhibit at the Savannah Science Museum. After closing its doors in 1997, the museum's Board of Trustees donated the pendulum to Armstrong Atlantic.

The center includes thirty-two chemistry, biology, and physics laboratories; twenty-six behavioral science labs; seven general classrooms; three tiered lecture halls; sixty-eight faculty offices; and eight computer labs.

Every classroom, lab, and lecture hall will have "plug and play" capacity that will allow students and faculty members to plug in their laptop computers for access to the Internet and other campus and state information services.