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| Written by Johnathan Silver, The Shorthorn senior staff | ||||
| Tuesday, 25 August 2009 08:37 PM | ||||
Bioengineering graduate student Jennifer Stearns
sets up one of the labs on the third floor Tuesday in the Engineering
Laboratory Building. Stearns will work in the lab with regenerative
neurobiology, dealing with different cell treatments to promote nerve
growth in the peripheral and central nervous systems of the human body.
(The Shorthorn: Morganne Stewart) The building’s third floor was completed in July and was ready for use by the first day of classes, but some amenities have delayed departments from fully moving in. The new facility has the space to hold all faculty and staff of the bioengineering department and places for non-bioengineering researchers. New residents were still in the process of moving into the remodeled building as others were at work. Some offices had shut doors with bright lights illuminating through the windows, while others were dark and uninhabited. Dismantled furniture and boxes in the halls didn’t affect work, said bioengineering graduate student Jennifer Stearns. Before remodeling, bioengineering faculty and researchers were scattered throughout campus. Stearns and Jennifer Seifert, a biomedical engineering post-doctoral fellow, shared lab space with another researcher in the Life Science Building. They said they were happy to be closer to colleagues and the department office. “This will unify our department,” she said. “No more hiking across campus.” While some occupants of the redesigned building liked the extra space others worried about the building’s capacity. Other areas housed in the building, such as electrical engineering and robotics, could bring different ideas to the table, said Farah Maqsood, biomedical engineering graduate student. But there isn’t enough room in the new conference room for all bioengineering and other department researchers to have those thoughts expressed in a formal setting, she said. Sites like the lab building are increasing interest in engineering at UTA, said Bill Carroll, College of Engineering dean. “The buzz that we’ve gotten over the new building is contributing to higher enrollment,” he said. “It’s seldom that someone comes to campus who isn’t pleasantly surprised. So we’ve got to get more people to come to campus.” Views: 140 | E-mail
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