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Academic Centers for Athletes Draw Donors
More than a dozen university athletics programs have added lavish new facilities in recent years, and academic-services budgets are soaring, a Chronicle survey finds. (Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M U.)
College Employees Value Campus Environment, Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list.
Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
What if the sort of extreme weather that has left the University of Iowa inundated in floodwaters is not a freak event? What if it is a sign of things to come? (Photograph by AP Images)
Other News
After Hurricane Gustav, Campuses Clean Up
Cleanup crews scoured Gulf Coast campuses, removing downed limbs and repairing broken windows, while students and staff members forced out by Hurricane Gustav waited for word that they could return.
Lessons From Katrina Improve Colleges' Evacuations for Hurricane Gustav
College officials across the Gulf Coast were cautiously relieved when initial reports suggested the damage wasn't severe.
College of Southern Idaho Cafeteria Goes 'Tray-Less'
Students are also wasting less food because they no longer have the option of overloading their cafeteria trays, says the college's food-services director.
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A Green Building as a Billboard for Science
(A 2006 Chronicle video)
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Florida State U. Opens Chemistry Building at Center of Donation Dispute
On Friday Florida State University formally opened a new $72-million, 168,000-square-foot chemistry building that will house some 250 researchers. The architects were O’Brien/Atkins, of Durham, N.C.
The five-story, red-brick building includes three floors of laboratories designed to be flexible enough to accommodate changing research needs, as well as one floor devoted to synthetic organic chemistry and one floor that mixes labs with a 160-seat lecture hall. The labs have a total of 145 fume hoods, according to a university news release. A photo gallery is available on the Tallahassee Democrat’s Web site.
Fund raising for the building took an unusual turn when Robert A. Holton, a chemistry professor who invented the anti-cancer drug Taxol, made a donation to the project but then demanded that the gift be returned because the focus of the building had changed. A state judge ordered the university to give back $11-million of the donation that had come from the professor’s foundation, plus interest, but said the university could spend $18.5-million from the professor’s lab account, which she determined was money the university controlled (The Chronicle, September 8, 2006).
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