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USU announces Life Sciences Building plans



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Later this month, Utah State University will break ground on a Life Sciences Building, a facility the school has wanted to build for years to address the problem of not having enough laboratory classroom space to meet student demand.

The ground breaking will be at 1 p.m. April 25, according to a USU news release that came out Monday. The building will be located in the spot of the former Peterson Agricultural Sciences Building, south of the Biology and Natural Resources building and north of Eccles Conference Center. That spot has been a grassy patch ever since the Peterson building was torn down after the Agricultural Sciences Building on the quad was erected in 2012.

The Life Sciences Building should be complete by January of 2019.

The USU Life Sciences Building is going to be 103,000 square feet, with a basement and four above-ground levels. It will house the department of biology, 13 teaching laboratories, a lecture hall, research laboratories and student study spaces.