Texas Wesleyan to Build Science, Technology Center

    July 29, 2005
    Construction on $1.8 million building to begin in spring

    Source Fort Worth Star Telegram via Associated Press

    The Texas Wesleyan University science department is taking a high-tech step forward.

    Professors will use six advanced classrooms to teach scientific courses with strong technological components. The emphasis will be on bioinformatics -- an expanding field that uses tools and technologies from molecular biology and computer science to understand the structure and function of genes.

    Construction on the Science and Technology Center is scheduled to begin in the spring and to be completed in 2007. The 7,000-square-foot building will also include four faculty offices, two seminar rooms and math and computer science labs.

    Provost Allen Henderson said the building will benefit graduate and undergraduate students.

    "This will be great for all of Tarrant County," he said. "We will use the new facilities in summer programs for high school students, as well as science teachers from around the Metroplex."

    Expected to cost $1.8 million, the center is partly funded by a $969,000 grant from the Department of Energy.