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July 13, 2004

NC State Science Building Renamed in Honor of Chancellor Fox

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The North Carolina State University Board of Trustees announced that the Undergraduate Science and Teaching Laboratory will be named the Marye Anne Fox Science Teaching Laboratory in honor of the departing chancellor and her six years of service to the university.

Peaches Gunter Blank, chair of the NC State Board of Trustees, said, “Marye Anne Fox was the driving force behind NC State’s continued evolution into a comprehensive community of scholars nationally recognized for its excellence. We’re sad to see Marye Anne go, but we hope the newly named Marye Anne Fox Science Teaching Laboratory will commemorate her dedication and service to the university. The building will serve as a lasting legacy of Marye Anne’s commitment to NC State.”

Board member Wendell Murphy added, “This is the least we could do to honor Chancellor Fox. She had more to do with the passing of the higher education bond referendum than anyone else. It’s important for NC State to thank her in this way.”

The building, formally dedicated in June 2004 and located at the intersection of Brooks Avenue and Yarbrough Drive on NC State’s North Campus, has more than 100,000 square feet of space, including 25,000 square feet of greenhouse space. The building includes seven undergraduate physics teaching labs, 14 undergraduate chemistry labs and support areas such as lab instrument and prep rooms. In addition to three new teaching greenhouses on the south side of the building, the facility also contains a horticulture wet lab, a plant pathology lab and work space to support the greenhouses.

More than 5,000 chemistry and physics students and hundreds of students working and studying in greenhouses call this state-of-the-art learning space home. The $30 million facility was funded by the $3.1 billion University and Community College Bond Referendum, approved in November 2000.

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