UT Knoxville to break ground on $100 million science building

A rendering shows the planned $102.5 million Mossman Building at the University of Tennessee. Officials will break ground Thursday for the new science building at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. It will have six floors of classroom and laboratory space for microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition. It is scheduled to open in fall 2018.
A rendering shows the planned $102.5 million Mossman Building at the University of Tennessee. Officials will break ground Thursday for the new science building at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. It will have six floors of classroom and laboratory space for microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition. It is scheduled to open in fall 2018.
photo A rendering shows the planned $102.5 million Mossman Building at the University of Tennessee. Officials will break ground Thursday for the new science building at the corner of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street. It will have six floors of classroom and laboratory space for microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition. It is scheduled to open in fall 2018.

The University of Tennessee will break ground today on a new science building on the former site of three historic houses in Knoxville.

The building and a corresponding lecture series are named for late UT alumni Ken and Blaire Mossman, who met at UT as students in 1968 and had careers in science.

The new $102.5 million science building will have six floors of classroom and laboratory space for microbiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, psychology and nutrition. It is scheduled to open in fall 2018.

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