I am intrigued by our new electronic sign and thought I would contribute to its content by welcoming our new Liberal Arts students who joined us this summer and updating the Liberal Arts family on the Moore building project.
What a difference a year makes! At least that’s true of our Moore building project, the expansion and renovation of the home of the Department of Psychology. During the past year, workers have demolished all but the steel frame of the north wing of the original Moore building, and constructed an addition on the north side that stretches the entire length of the original building, seamlessly connecting the structure of the original smaller wing to the extensions on both the west and east of that wing.
When completed, the addition will provide 50,000 square feet of new laboratories for psychology faculty and students, offices for faculty and graduate students, new undergraduate advising facilities, spaces for students to study or relax, clinical facilities for the psychological clinic, and a home for the Child Study Center. The building is scheduled to be fully enclosed within the next week or so and the project is still on target for completion at the end of 2011. We anticipate that part of the department will move into these new quarters in time for the spring semester 2012, while other faculty will exodus from the original building and renovation will begin there. It will be 2014 until all psychology faculty and students will be reunited in their long awaited new home.
You can view the slideshow below to see the progression of the Moore Building construction project: