Help is coming, but scramble continues for UW chemistry seats
9/3/2015
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

By Karen Herzog

The high-stakes race to find a seat in a chemistry class at three University of Wisconsin System campuses began anew Wednesday with the start of another academic year. But one campus did get some good news in the new state budget approved over the summer.

UW-Madison will finally get its new chemistry building to replace a crowded building with outdated labs, thanks to $86.2 million included in the 2015-'17 state capital budget passed in July. The university will still have to come up with more than $20 million, as the new building is projected to cost $107.8 million. The new building won't be online until 2020 — a year after the majority of incoming freshmen graduate. Construction is expected to begin in 2017...

...UW-Stevens Point is scheduled to break ground this year for a four-story chemistry-biology building expected to be completed in November 2017 at a cost of about $75 million. That project was funded in the last biennial state budget, and will be the first new, free-standing academic building on the Stevens Point campus since 1971.

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