State awards $87.5 million for Ball State University project

MUNCIE, Ind. — The state Legislature has appropriated $87.5 million for a new 175,000-square-feet STEM building to house Ball State University's biology, chemistry and geology departments.

The funding allows the university continue to vacate the outdated Cooper Science Complex, which has been called "an eyesore," rigid and an "energy hog" that would be difficult to renovate.

Lawmakers two years ago earmarked $62.5 million to construct another, 165,000-square-feet building to house the university's new college of health. It will be built first and will include nursing/health sciences programs.

New health clinics and science labs are critical to Ball State's future, campus master plan consultants said several years ago.

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