Campus getting $7.6M science building

LONG BEACH, Miss. - The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Park campus will be getting a new $7.6 million science building that will feature 33,580 square feet of biology and chemistry laboratories, a marine science laboratory, faculty offices, research space and classrooms. Construction for the facility, on the northwest corner of the campus, is scheduled to begin in fall 2010 and is expected to be ready for occupancy by spring 2012. (Source: USM, 02/10/10)