Cedarville Magazine Winter 2016

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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.
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The new chemistry
labs were part of phase
two of the Science and Engineering
Expansion Campaign.
Chemistry lab space ex
from 6,500 square feet
11,500 square feet, incr
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
from three to eight, and allow
530 students per week to use
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
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