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UTB/TSC’s $33.8 million, state-funded Science
and Technology Learning Center will house the Center for Biomedical
Studies, as well the university’s growing Nursing Department. This new
complex will be built southeast of the Life & Health Sciences Building,
just a short walk from the Student Union, parking and the resaca
footbridge to the Education & Business Complex, new Library and new
Classroom Building.
The facility will support cutting edge efforts
in biology, biotechnology and medicine, building momentum for the flow
of additional research dollars to the university. Of particular
importance to the community, the new center will focus research on
health problems such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease,
which disproportionately burden the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Eleven laboratories will be included in the
new building, along with administrative and community outreach offices.
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