PULLMAN, Wash. The Executive Committee of the Washington State University Board of Regents approved allocations to two projects related to the growth of the health sciences on the WSU Spokane campus at a special meeting held by teleconference Tuesday.
The committee approved the expansion of a data center in the basement of the Phase I Classroom Building. University officials said growth on the Riverpoint campus, including the nursing doctoral program, the WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho) medical education program and expansion of the Shock Physics Laboratory, has resulted in expanded need for the data center.
A Washington State Innovation Partnership Zone grant will pay $900,000 of the $1.722 million cost of the construction, with the remainder coming from already allocated state building funds and from WWAMI.
The WWAMI program is also funding a $2 million renovation project on the Riverpoint campus to provide more biomedical and biochemistry research space and another interactive classroom. The additions, which will take place in the Nursing and Health Sciences buildings, will accommodate growth in the WWAMI program. The executive committee also approved the project Tuesday.
Construction on both projects will begin immediately.
WWAMI program information: https://www.wsu.edu/~wwami/ and www.wwami.spokane.wsu.edu
A Washington State Innovation Partnership Zone grant will pay $900,000 of the $1.722 million cost of the construction, with the remainder coming from already allocated state building funds and from WWAMI.
The WWAMI program is also funding a $2 million renovation project on the Riverpoint campus to provide more biomedical and biochemistry research space and another interactive classroom. The additions, which will take place in the Nursing and Health Sciences buildings, will accommodate growth in the WWAMI program. The executive committee also approved the project Tuesday.
Construction on both projects will begin immediately.
WWAMI program information: https://www.wsu.edu/~wwami/ and www.wwami.spokane.wsu.edu
