Georgetown receives $6.9 million for Science Center, which will resume construction
Posted by: Molly Redden in News, Vox Populi, tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Science Building, Stimulus Funding
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has granted Georgetown University $6.9 million in stimulus money for the construction of the science building and scientific research, its largest award through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to date.
In an e-mail to the Voice, Associate Dean of the College Ali Whitmer said that construction of the Science Center, which was put on hold until Georgetown could secure enough funding, can now begin in earnest this semester. Some below-ground work had already taken place this fall.
The grant is less than the $15 million Georgetown asked for in its grant proposal in early August, but Whitmer points out that it is not unusual for agencies to grant less than was requested of them.
Georgetown was required to submit both a construction and research element as part of its grant proposal to the NIST, Scott Fleming, the Associate Vice President for Federal Relations, told the Voice in November, so part of the $6.9 million will go toward the creation of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology in addition to construction.
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If the grass at Georgetown is ever as green as it is in that picture, I will eat a basketball signed by Austin Freeman.
I am confused as to the orientation of this building. if it’s replacing Reiss exactly, there really needs to be a sidewalk parallel to it.
It’s not replacing Reiss, it’s going where the huge pile of dirt is next to Hariri.
Why does it have the big ugly red wall? Like could they do a stone wall, one stone wall? I know Georgetown is into that mid-90’s combination of brick, stone, glass and suburban vinyl siding, but as this will occupy the last square inch of land on the main campus, maybe they could try to make it not look like a giant blank wall found on some industrial science campus in Chernobyl.
I imagine they were going to have a giant Jesuit symbol on it like Reiss, but can’t have religious iconography now because it will be partially funded by the government (like the ICC). Perhaps it can be a space for stirring Big Brother-esque portraits of DeGioia and Todd Olson.
Ug-ly.
If they don’t do something to improve the details, it’s going to end up yet another John Carl Warnecke mistake.
John Carl Warnecke? Really?
You need to chill.
Substitute the glass for concrete and you have the same linearity of a Warnecke sarcophagus. And the south wall is even worse, a blank slate staring down at what will become the main pedestrian thoroughfare on campus according to the last campus plan (http://community.georgetown.edu/campusplan.html). This is the university’s last chance to build something meaningful on the 200+ year-old campus.
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