Salazar Labs to Open in Fall

After two years of remodeling, Salazar Hall, the former library building, will reopen in Fall 2002.

Approximately one-eighth of the building will be devoted to the Cerent Science and Engineering Center, a complex of new laboratories to be used by the master’s program in Computer and Engineering Science (CES) and by a number of departments in the SSU School of Science and Technology. (Formerly Natural Sciences, the School was renamed this year).

Of particular interest to the Department will be the new electronics, photonics, and materials labs. The electronics lab will be used for physics classes this fall.

The W.M. Keck Microanalysis Laboratory, funded by a grant from the Keck Foundation secured by Dean Saeid Rahimi, will include a new scanning electron microscope and a confocal microscope. According to the Dean, “This lab will help our graduate and undergraduate students become involved in projects with strong applicability to the high tech job market and graduate programs in their fields.”

The new photonics laboratory will be used for physics courses in the spring. In addition, the Agilent Technologies Communications Laboratory will feature a variety of industry-leading photonics, optics and communications test instruments used by graduate students in CES, as well as undergraduate students in applied physics.