Categories: South Carolina News

$8.2 million approved for USCA’s School of Science and Engineering

AIKEN, S.C. (WJBF) – The South Carolina Legislature recently approved $8.2 million to upgrade the University of South Carolina Aiken’s Science and Engineering building’s infrastructure, USCA announced Thursday.

According to a press release on Oct. 16, the upgrades, when made, will offer more hands-on-learning opportunities and enhance collaboration between USCA and regional partners.

The investment will increase the working space in the Science and Engineering building by almost 5,000 square feet.

According to the school, the enhancements to the building will include three additional wet lab spaces, known as the External Collaborative Applied Research Center (ECARC).

“As USCA grows in serving the region with an expanding science, cyber and engineering portfolio, we must also address the demand for wet lab collaborative research with regional industry and laboratories in the areas of materials science and environmental science,” said Dr. Scott McKay, associate vice chancellor for research and strategic initiatives. “Currently, our laboratory capacity in the science building is not adequate to expand the number of collaborative projects in a chemical environment to provide for the growing workforce demand.”

rssfeeds-admin

Share
Published by
rssfeeds-admin

Recent Posts

Pokémon Champions Producer Acknowledges Visual ‘Limitations’ Amid Ongoing Fan Scrutiny of Series’ Graphics

The Pokémon Company technical director Masaaki Hoshino has acknowledged continued fan scrutiny of the series'…

45 minutes ago

John Wick 5 Gets First Positive Update in a Year

John Wick 5 just got a positive update that suggests the movie will be made…

46 minutes ago

When Brazil Built Its Capital on Modernist Principles: The Controversial Design of Brasília

When we think of modern architecture, we often think first of what’s called the International…

2 hours ago

Meta experiments with AI internally, Musk and Altman head to court, and startups continue to innovate in April

This month big tech companies have been dominating the AI news cycle on a number…

2 hours ago

How AI eSIM Is Redefining International Connectivity

Nowadays, people expect instant access to bookings, communication, and maps the moment they land in…

2 hours ago

The #1 Reason Your AI RAG Pipeline Gives Wrong Answers: Bad Document Labeling

Your embeddings are solid. Your vector database is tuned. Your LLM is capable. So why…

2 hours ago

This website uses cookies.