2014-2015 Cedarville University Annual Report

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EXPANSION CAMPAIGN YOU DID IT! Thanks to your generous support, we reached our $5 million goal eight months ahead of schedule! Cedarville launched a capital campaign in 2014 to expand and upgrade lab facilities, classroom space, and technology for our science and engineering programs. A gross anatomy lab was completed August 2014, followed by new chemistry labs and expanded biology labs in August 2015. Engineering labs will be open to students in January 2016. Look for other exciting ways to be involved at cedarville.edu/advancement . The new chemistry labs were part of phase two of the Science and Engineering Expansion Campaign. Chemistry lab space ex panded from 6,500 square feet to 11,500 square feet, incr easing the number of labs from five to seven, allowing 540 students per week to use the state-of-the-art facilities (fall 2015). Biology lab space expanded by 6,000 square feet, increasing the number of lab s from three to eight, and allow ing 530 students per week to use the state-of-the-art facilities (fall 2015). The creation of the new state-of-the-art chemistry and biology labs has been a great step forward for our programs. The new labs are safer, brighter, and more spacious and provide better learning environments than our old labs. I am grateful for the visionary leadership of our President and Board of Trustees and for the exceptional generosity of everyone who donated financially to the project. Cedarville students now have access to arguably the best laboratory facilities in the nation. The Human Gross Anatomy lab gives our premed students an experience that few undergraduates get. Our new research spaces in chemistry and biology enhance our student’s preparation for graduate and medical school as well as for employment. Dennis Flentge Chair, Department of Science and Mathematics The new labs are an incredible asset to the biology department at Cedarville. It is rare to have the chance to study anatomy with cadavers during undergraduate studies, and even more so to have the opportunity to dissect them before medical school. We’ve heard numerous testimonies from 2015 graduates who have consistently been the only ones in their medical school dissection labs who know how to use the instruments and properly dissect important anatomical structures. Our preparation clearly puts us light-years ahead of our peers in medical school, and I am excited to take my experience in the lab to my first year anatomy class. Paige White ’16 Molecular and Cellular Biology 32 | Cedarville Magazine