2008 Woodie Awards
Science building on hold
Charity Allman
Issue date: 9/24/07 Section: News
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Students at Brookhaven College might see more changes to the campus starting fall 2007. A new Science and Allied Health Building is set to be built, with the ground breaking taking place before December 2007, George Herring, vice president of business services, said.
Dr. Sharon Blackman, president of Brookhaven, said after Farmers Branch City Council denied the college's proposal for rezoning, administration must now submit a building permit request.
She said Brookhaven will submit the request at the Oct. 8 Planning and Zoning Committee meeting and if it passes then it will go to the City Council on Oct. 16 or Nov. 6.
Plans for the new building are on display in the L Building. Herring said the new building will provide Brookhaven students with 17 new classrooms and 36 labs. There will be four new chemistry labs and six new biology labs, he said, along with a trauma center and an ambulance bay.
Herring said some of the classes set to move into the new building are radiology, the nursing program and the emergency medical technician program. With these classes moving to a new building, space will free up on campus making room for more classrooms where the other programs had previously been.
Doris Rousey, math and science dean, said, "When the new building is built, space in the K Building will be free so we can have more classroom space."
The new classrooms will all be SMART. Instead of professors having to use nomad carts to present their lectures, the new classrooms will have projectors, Rousey said. She said SMART classrooms are technologically advanced. Rousey said they have projectors for Power- Point presentations and laptops for professors. This is how the new 120-seat lecture hall will be set up, she said. The new building will also house a genetics lab and study areas for students.
Along with the new building comes the opportunity for the nursing program to begin to accept more applicants, Rousey said. "Right now space is limited for the nursing program, but we hope to accept more students soon."
Rousey said the old biology and chemistry labs will be turned into classrooms. She said with the nursing program in the new building this frees up even more classroom space. "The high school on campus has already taken over P Building; we need all the classroom space we can get," Rousey said.
Rousey said Brookhaven was prompted to build a new building not only because the campus is running out of room for classrooms but because they are a part of the master plan concept.
Dr. Sharon Blackman, president of Brookhaven, said after Farmers Branch City Council denied the college's proposal for rezoning, administration must now submit a building permit request.
She said Brookhaven will submit the request at the Oct. 8 Planning and Zoning Committee meeting and if it passes then it will go to the City Council on Oct. 16 or Nov. 6.
Plans for the new building are on display in the L Building. Herring said the new building will provide Brookhaven students with 17 new classrooms and 36 labs. There will be four new chemistry labs and six new biology labs, he said, along with a trauma center and an ambulance bay.
Herring said some of the classes set to move into the new building are radiology, the nursing program and the emergency medical technician program. With these classes moving to a new building, space will free up on campus making room for more classrooms where the other programs had previously been.
Doris Rousey, math and science dean, said, "When the new building is built, space in the K Building will be free so we can have more classroom space."
The new classrooms will all be SMART. Instead of professors having to use nomad carts to present their lectures, the new classrooms will have projectors, Rousey said. She said SMART classrooms are technologically advanced. Rousey said they have projectors for Power- Point presentations and laptops for professors. This is how the new 120-seat lecture hall will be set up, she said. The new building will also house a genetics lab and study areas for students.
Along with the new building comes the opportunity for the nursing program to begin to accept more applicants, Rousey said. "Right now space is limited for the nursing program, but we hope to accept more students soon."
Rousey said the old biology and chemistry labs will be turned into classrooms. She said with the nursing program in the new building this frees up even more classroom space. "The high school on campus has already taken over P Building; we need all the classroom space we can get," Rousey said.
Rousey said Brookhaven was prompted to build a new building not only because the campus is running out of room for classrooms but because they are a part of the master plan concept.
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