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The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved designating a research park at UM-Rolla at its April 6 meeting.
The research park will be located at the site of the present UM-Rolla golf course on approximately 56 acres. The park would provide space and linkage to UM-Rolla researchers, facilities and business support services to assist companies in transferring knowledge from the campus to the marketplace and in fostering economic development.
A recommendation for the name of the park, the covenants and master plan will be brought to the board for approval at a later meeting.
University of Missouri President Elson S. Floyd was recognized with a resolution at the board meeting.
Floyd, who became UM president in January 2003, will leave the University at the end of April 2007, to become president of Washington State University in Pullman.
The board approved naming the General Classroom Building at UM-Columbia the “Arvarh E. Strickland Building.”
Strickland was appointed professor of history at UM-Columbia in 1969 and became the first African American on the faculty. Before retiring in 1995 after 26 years of service to the University, he twice served as interim director of the Black Studies Program, which he was instrumental in creating. He also served as a special assistant to the chancellor and as UM associate vice president for academic affairs.
The board approved the selection of firms for various campus construction projects.
At UM-Columbia, the board approved designs for both the Mid-Campus Housing project and the Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory facility at the new Discovery Ridge Research Park.
JE Dunn, of Kansas City, Mo., was selected for construction manager agency contract services for the University Hospital Surgery Tower and Orthopedics Institute.
The board approved the revised capital appropriations request under the Lewis and Clark Discovery Initiative for Fiscal Year 2008.
The revised capital appropriations request includes: $21 million for agriculture research centers across the state, UM-Columbia; $31 million for Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, UM Health Care; $18 million for the Pharmacy and Nursing Building and School of Dentistry clinical equipment, UM-Kansas City; $15 million for Toomey Hall Mechanical Engineering Building, UM-Rolla; and $28.5 million for Benton-Stadler Halls, UM-St. Louis.
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