College celebrates new building with tours, ribbon cutting

By Dave Clark

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 | midnight

Nevada State College will host a grand opening of its Liberal Arts and Sciences building Oct. 2, with a public tour and ribbon cutting marking the first permanent building on the 500-acre campus.

Tours of the 42,000-square-foot building at 1021 E. Paradise Hills Drive, many of which will be hosted by faculty, will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a ribbon cutting at 6:30 p.m.

Students, faculty, public officials and members of the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents will be on hand.

The building has been open since the start of the school year, but officials wanted to ensure all of the details were completed before the ceremony.

The tours will feature the school's history, as well as demonstrations of the building's technology, spokesman Spencer Stewart said.

Some classes have i-clicker technology, which allows instructors to ask students questions and get immediate, individual responses.

Classrooms are additionally equipped with Sympodium, which allows a professor to immediately e-mail problems or notes written on a white board to the entire class.

The tours will focus on the school's seismograph and four science labs, as well, which Stewart called sophisticated.

"It's the same lab equipment used at some of the leading private biology labs in the country," Stewart said.

Dave Clark can be reached at 990-2677 or dave.clark@hbcpub.com.