I remember going through chemistry labs around 1980 - and it all seemed very old then.
I will never forget my first chemistry lab. You had to bend glass. Idea was - to teach you to be careful since everyone burned the crap out of themselves.
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Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: 6/16 06:01 --- New UF chemistry building is
needed [Mato]
From: Shane Ford <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, June 16, 2010 8:44 am
To: [email protected]
New UF chemistry building is needed
Work on the building itself will start when funding is approved.
By Ines Mato
Gainesville SUN CorrespondentPublished: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 12:23 a.m.A new and much-needed chemistry building is being built in the historical part of the University of Florida campus in what is now a parking lot near the intersection of Buckman Drive and West University Avenue.The building will provide more research facilities for chemistry undergraduates and graduate students who are using facilities that are 50 to 60 years old.When funding becomes available next year, the building itself will be constructed, but at the moment workers are doing preliminary work, said Frank Javaheri, the project's manager. The building will cost $65 million."Only the underground and utilities are being constructed for now," Javaheri said.The parking lot where the building will be put up will be relocated, Javaheri said, but its new site has not been determined yet.The new building is needed because UF's chemistry department doesn't have enough room for its students, said Daniel R. Talham, chairman of the chemistry department.Also, most of the chemistry labs date from the 1940s and 1950s and need to be modernized, Talham said.The new building will provide students with new research facilities and modern equipment that the old buildings don't have.The contractor is Skanska USA Building Inc., and the completion date is scheduled for July 2014.The building will include four floors of labs and offices.It will be divided into two undergraduate teaching floors, two floors of graduate research space, a basement and a mechanical penthouse.The architectural style will be gothic to match the architecture of the nearby buildings.To see the design and to read information about the building, go online to www.chem.ufl.edu/dept/newbuilding.shtml.--
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