A&T dedicates new Science Building

North Carolina A&T will dedicated its new science building, the home of the chemistry and psychology departments, last week. The 74,100-square-foot building cost $21.8 million and was paid for with bonds for higher education that voters approved in 2000. Students, faculty and staff started moving in at the beginning of the semester.

The new building will allow students to make more contributions to research and discovery, and prepare students for graduate work, which often requires a substantial amount of research experience, said Michael Plater, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

The facility has a number of observation labs for experiments for psychology students and faculty, and chemistry majors will use better equipment than what's found in a lot of corporate chemistry labs, Plater said.