Walls Going Up for New Evansdale Campus Buildings (house, construction)

[CTMountaineer]

Part of $150 million in construction for the Evansdale Campus...

Article - Walls going up on new WVU buildings

[Silkdashocker]

That's a pretty major overhaul to the Evanale Campus. It will be bustling with activity and will feel like its no longer neglected

[CTMountaineer]

Add this to the hundreds of millions of dollars in construction going on at the neighboring Health Sciences Campus and additional construction at the Suncrest Towne Center and WV 705 will be booming in the upcoming years.

[adam36]

These are the first academic, non-medical buildings to be built by WVU in a long while. I'd say the last one that fits that category is the Life Sciences Building, completed 2001. Hopefully the big U will continue to put some money into new learning facilities for the rest of us not doing biomedical research at the medical complex.

[elewis7]

Adam, it's either LSB or South Ag Sciences. Either way, it's been a while for a college of its size.

Did/do you do any research at WVU?

[adam36]

Yep. Currently doing genetics/cell signaling research here, which is why I'm always harping on the University for not investing more in actual research but only giving it lip service. Perhaps if they asked graduate students on occasion how their research performance might be improved they'd learn a few things that would help the university as a whole... Elewis, Are you a researcher as well?

[elewis7]

Just came back as a grad student after a brief stint at Carnegie Mellon. I got my BS in chemical engineering here and now I'm over in civil and environmental engineering, working with water treatment systems.

And I totally agree with your point about investing in actual research. Thankfully, though, I believe Dr. Clements has the University going in the right direction - a much greater research capacity and quality while not forsaking the original Land Grant mission. As great as CMU was, I'm thrilled to be at WVU during this renaissance of sorts.

[adam36]

I really like Clements, but I keep hoping he realizes that lazy department administrators are holding back the university's potential. He needs to get the deans to clean house if graduate student performance doesn't improve. Potentially, the university needs to consider adding more small resource grants for grad students who have good ideas but no access to supplies. At least with biomedical research, good ideas are often prohibited by an investment of only $1-2k. That would be a worthwhile investment from the university's standpoint if it will turn into a couple figures in a mid- to high-level publication.