NEW ROAD was in attendance for the ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 14, 2021 to celebrate Rowan University’s newest academic building DISCOVERY HALL on the Glassboro campus. The $47 million, four-story facility expands science education and research space.
“Today we celebrate yet another new building in a series of new buildings over the last 10 years,” said Rowan President Ali A. Houshmand in the building’s brick and glass-walled lobby.
The building includes six active learning classrooms, four chemistry labs, two biology labs, six traditional lecture spaces and specialty research labs for geology, paleontology, environmental science, computational research and molecular paleontology, one of just two research spaces in the nation dedicated to the study of ancient proteins in fossils.
Dean Vojislava (Voki) Pophristic of the College of Science & Mathematics said Discovery Hall’s mix of research and undergraduate teaching labs provide Rowan the space and resources needed to help meet such vital challenges. “These are new, beautiful, state-of-the-art labs, well-designed to prepare future generations of scientists, medical professionals, engineers” and other STEM-field professionals, Pophristic said. “And though they’re beautiful, the important thing is not their aesthetics but their functionality. We’ll have 1,200 students using these labs every semester.”
The Discovery Hall project also includes student collaboration space and “Time Sweeps”, a 264-ton stone sculpture built on the grounds this summer.
