The new University’s Life and Engineering Sciences Building is located at the Manassas Science and Technological Campus.
A few George Mason University Students started the spring semester in new high -tech laboratories and classrooms. School Life sciences and engineering buildingLocated at the Science and Technology Campus (Scitech) in Manassas, officially opened.
The 132.00 square feet building at the cutting edge of technology includes classrooms and more than 30 different laboratory spaces for teaching, design and manufacturing. It is aimed at students studying in fields such as kinesiology, microbiology, chemistry, engineering, legal sciences, robotics and autonomous vehicles.
The building ground floor houses engineering laboratories and student design competition berries. These areas open onto the outdoor tracks of the campus, giving students and teachers a view of the work that occurs inside.
Scitech campus
“Designed for rigorous practical learning, the life sciences and the engineering building mark an important investment in the state in our exceptional teacher of George Mason to educate and inspire our students – the next generation of leaders, researchers, innovators and resolve of Virginia problems,” said GMU president, Gregory Washington. “This installation, and the progress it will produce, also establishes the scientific and technological campus, and this district of innovation, as an ancient economic corridor which extends from Mason Square to Arlington at the Fairfax campus in Manassas, by pressing more on George Mason as a major engine of the prosperity of our region and our state.”
Created in 1997, the plans for the SCITECH campus include the development of two residential and commercial city centers linked to the campus. “The planned city centers will create a stronger link between the campus and the surrounding community,” said Colby Grant, director of the administration and operations of the Scitech campus. “Combined with the new building of life and engineering sciences, these developments also establish campus as a dynamic center for science, technology, arts, entertainment and leisure.”
GMU is not the only Virginia college expanding its technological footprint in the region. Uva and Virginia Tech too Recently opened new northern Virginia campuses at the cutting edge of technology.
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