{"id":1902,"date":"2023-07-11T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1902"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T22:45:27","slug":"make-over-money","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/make-over-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-Over Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">A<\/span><span class=\"s3\">s the first part<\/span> of Eastern\u2019s two-phase renovation<\/strong> of its Science Building nears completion, the project\u2019s second phase, scheduled to start next spring, received a welcome appropriations boost from lawmakers in Olympia. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The final 2023-25 biennium budget, signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee in April, allocates an additional $58 million to complete the more than $110 million Science Building makeover. The work will add state-of-the-art research and laboratory facilities, modern classrooms for STEM-related learning, and space to enable hiring of new faculty positions to support Eastern\u2019s ever-expanding STEM footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">The old Science Building, completed in 1962, had long been due for an overhaul, David Bowman, dean of Eastern\u2019s College of STEM, told Eastern magazine last year. Bowman described the pre-renovation facility as a \u201cSputnik-era building designed for Sputnik-era science.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Work on the modernization effort is scheduled for completion in August 2025. \u201cThis has been a multi-phased project,\u201d said EWU President Shari McMahan in a statement after the appropriation number was finalized. \u201cWe are excited to receive the funding that will allow us to finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first part of Eastern\u2019s two-phase renovation of its Science Building nears completion, the project\u2019s second phase, scheduled to start next spring, received a welcome appropriations boost from lawmakers in Olympia. \u00a0 The final 2023-25 biennium budget, signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee in April, allocates an additional $58 million to complete the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/make-over-money\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":1903,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1902","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"subheading":"Funding for EWU\u2019s Science Building renovation gets a thumbs-up from Olympia.","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false,"display_featured_image":true},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1902\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test-www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}