Renderings of the new building<\/a> are also available.)<\/p>\nThe new facility will be located just south of the current Chemistry Building, between the Physics Building, 1900 E. Kenwood Blvd., and the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center and UWM Welcome Center, 2100 E. Kenwood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new facility will represent much of what the Wisconsin Idea is all about,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cTo meet the state\u2019s biggest and thorniest challenges and, most importantly, to equip our students with the knowledge and tools they need to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
UWM received state-supported borrowing\u202fto begin work on the building as part of\u202fthe UW System\u2019s $1\u202fbillion\u202f2019-2021 capital budget plan. Construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2023 or early 2024 at a total cost of $118 million.<\/p>\n
The new four-story, 163,400-square-foot building will serve as a gateway to the STEM buildings and departments that house those subjects \u2013 science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It will include space for the\u202fnearly 5,000 UWM students who take chemistry and biochemistry classes each year.<\/p>\n
\u201cChemistry underlies nearly every growth industry, and we know that STEM jobs are growing faster than non-STEM jobs,\u201d said UWM Chancellor Mark Mone. \u201cEmployers need graduates who have the opportunity to conduct practical research and develop skills to solve problems. We are delighted to begin work on a new, modern chemistry building that will better prepare our students for the multitude of opportunities open to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Figures from a 2021 American Chemistry Council fact sheet showed chemistry industry jobs generated $1 billion in payroll across Wisconsin and $121 million\u202fin state and local tax revenue. One in five new jobs in Wisconsin are in science, technology, engineering and math fields, which are rooted in chemistry, according to Chemistry Department Chair Joseph Aldstadt.<\/p>\n
In addition to UWM students who take chemistry, so do high schoolers and middle schoolers from across the state and K-12 teachers who come to learn how to design classroom lessons for their students.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the \u2018central science,\u2019 students in a broad array of fields \u2014 natural sciences, health sciences, engineering \u2014 have curricula requiring knowledge of chemistry, an understanding of the structure and reactivity of matter in its myriad forms,\u201d Aldstadt said.
\n\u201cFor research, we are a key contributor to the university\u2019s R1 designation for research excellence,\u201d he said. \u201cWe average over $5 million per year in extramural funding, $49 million in the past decade.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new building will replace one that was built in 1972.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe primary reason we’re excited about the new building is that it will be a state-of-the-art facility,\u201d said Aldstadt. \u201cWe’ll be able to significantly enhance our teaching, research, and outreach missions. We will have new learning spaces for lectures, tutoring, study groups; new laboratories that integrate teaching and research, with efficiencies in design that make collaborative research easier to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The architecture\/engineering team for the project is led by CannonDesign in partnership with Kahler Slater. The general contractor is VJS Construction Services Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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