Saturday, May 10, 2025
5/10/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Chemistry students, including chemistry majors and minors, most science majors, premeds, nursing students, and criminal justice students at Shepherd University are engaged in hands-on laboratory experiences that few other universities can offer – small lab sizes with an experienced PhD professor performing the labs alongside them giving insight and information along the way. Our professors are highly trained in various experimental methods and continuously adopt new pedagogical standards. However, the “new” building for the science departments, including chemistry, was built in 1993-1998. Now, over 25 years later, new methods and pedagogy in chemical education have emerged and these lab and classroom spaces are outdated. The Chemistry Department currently supports five full time faculty, one full time lecturer, and several adjuncts needed to train 40-60 chemistry majors. This project addresses the critical need for updated laboratory and classroom spaces and will allow us to keep providing the best possible education that prepares our students for fulfilling careers in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and law. In addition, it will enable hybrid courses that will be offered to high school and non-traditional students. Our lab facilities are also toured by potential and new students in all the offered STEM fields. Hence, the modern equipment will help increase retention and enrollment in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This project will modernize our classroom spaces, classroom technology and lab equipment. Desks and chairs will be replaced, ducted fume hoods will be upgraded, and new audiovisual technology will be deployed to enable the hybrid classroom mode. No new construction, structural modifications or renovations are required. All the budgeted demolition, labor, and installation are aimed at the upgrades of existing spaces.
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