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One small step towards science building
Derek Fleming
Issue date: 1/25/08 Section: News
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal for fiscal year 2008-09 includes funds to be used for a new Space and Science Center and Science II classroom projects.
The proposed Space and Science Center will include a planetarium, an interactive science center, as well as a Foucault's pendulum. The Science II building will include new state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities for the Center of Mathematics and Science Education.
Gov. Schwarzenegger's budget proposal includes $4.8 million in California State University outlay funds from the 1988 General Obligation for Higher Education bonds. An additional $1.5 million in funds has been secured from the Federal Budget.
Funding has also come from private donations. Late physics professors Royal Vanderberg and Chien Yuan Hu donated a combined $400,000.
Final funding for the construction of the Space and Science Center and Science II will likely be decided by voters for the 2009-10 budgets. Final cost for the complex is estimated at $97 million.
"This is an exciting opportunity for our campus and for the community," Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez said.
A planned natural history museum that was to be a part of the Space and Science Center expansion led to a controversy when Gonzalez helped donors to gain permits to hunt animals in Tanzania, including three species close to extinction. Plans for the natural history museum have since been dropped.
The Science II classroom complex will consist of classrooms and laboratories, as well as the departments of science, mathematics and statistics, and chemistry in a 135,000 square foot, multi-story building. A second wing will house the Space and Science Center. Sac State hopes to attract science and mathematics students to the new facilities.
"We are very pleased that not only will our Space and Science Center become a reality, but that we will gain state-of-the-art science facilities for Sacramento State students," College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean Jill Trainer said in an interview with the Sacramento Bee.
The proposed Space and Science Center will include a planetarium, an interactive science center, as well as a Foucault's pendulum. The Science II building will include new state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities for the Center of Mathematics and Science Education.
Gov. Schwarzenegger's budget proposal includes $4.8 million in California State University outlay funds from the 1988 General Obligation for Higher Education bonds. An additional $1.5 million in funds has been secured from the Federal Budget.
Funding has also come from private donations. Late physics professors Royal Vanderberg and Chien Yuan Hu donated a combined $400,000.
Final funding for the construction of the Space and Science Center and Science II will likely be decided by voters for the 2009-10 budgets. Final cost for the complex is estimated at $97 million.
"This is an exciting opportunity for our campus and for the community," Sacramento State President Alexander Gonzalez said.
A planned natural history museum that was to be a part of the Space and Science Center expansion led to a controversy when Gonzalez helped donors to gain permits to hunt animals in Tanzania, including three species close to extinction. Plans for the natural history museum have since been dropped.
The Science II classroom complex will consist of classrooms and laboratories, as well as the departments of science, mathematics and statistics, and chemistry in a 135,000 square foot, multi-story building. A second wing will house the Space and Science Center. Sac State hopes to attract science and mathematics students to the new facilities.
"We are very pleased that not only will our Space and Science Center become a reality, but that we will gain state-of-the-art science facilities for Sacramento State students," College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean Jill Trainer said in an interview with the Sacramento Bee.
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