$6.9M Grant to Fund Research, New Science Center - Georgetown College

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$6.9M Grant to Fund Research, New Science Center

January 13, 2010

Georgetown University has received a $6.9 million economic stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) to support the creation of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, a special research entity to be housed in the university's new science center.

The award marks the biggest award the university has received to date through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The stimulus grant, for "shovel ready" projects will assist the university in facilitating the science center's construction, which had been delayed due to the current economic climate.

The 155,000-square-foot science facility, expected to open in fall 2012, will support the chemistry, physics and biology departments and house all of the research wet labs and teaching labs that are currently located in the Reiss Science Building and White-Gravenor Hall, which both provides state-of-the-art facilities in the short term and opens opportunities for renovating existing space for longer term growth in the sciences.

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