Marine Science Institute gets new high tech building
UT’s Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas will host the site to a new state-of-the-art building facility.
The building will be used for research labs for the Mission-Aransas Reserve, office space for faculty, meeting rooms and a resource center for field operations, said Steven Lanoux, assistant director of the Marine Science Institute.
Planning began approximately three years ago with the building’s $21 million in funding provided by UT, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and private and state donations.
“The building is purposed for the expansion of existing programs, such as outreach, research and hosting of visiting scientists and graduate students,” Lanoux said. “The resources will go primarily to support the ecosystem dynamic and biogeochemistry programs.”
Construction broke ground on the site on Aug. 1, and completion of the site is estimated for January 2011.
“We are very excited for this new building,” Lanoux said. “It will be equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and built to be environmentally sensitive to its surroundings.”
— Yijiao Zhuang
University to exhibit faculty artwork in upcoming show
The annual UT Fall Faculty Exhibition at the Creative Research Laboratory will open this fall and will host recent work by faculty artists in studio art, art education as well as design in the Department of Art and Art History.
The lab will present the exhibition in order to share the faculty’s influence on city art with the Austin community.
Carolyn Porter, assistant director of the Department of Art and Art History, said the Austin art community is multifaceted and encouraging.
“The Austin art community is unique for its ability to celebrate a number of different kind of art forms, discuss and encourage a number of different conversations relating to the art world, and to develop an experience and accessible audience of art enthusiasts,” Porter said.
The opening reception will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Creative Research Laboratory inside Flatbed World Headquarters. Artists will discuss their work and art professor John D. Murchison will moderate an art discussion as part of the exhibit on Oct. 1 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Porter said the laboratory is geared toward showcasing upcoming and talented UT artists.
“All of the exhibitions are focused on exhibiting the faculty, students and alumni of the department of art and art history,” Porter said. “Students and the UT community can discover new talent, research the artistic process and trajectories of the faculty and understand where graduates have taken their artistic processes as alumni.”
— Bobby Longoria
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