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Capital
 Capital
projects remain our greatest budgetary challenge. However,
we have progress to celebrate. We will open our new Bioscience
Research Building (shown left) tomorrow. I focused on
this building before arriving in Maryland in 1998 and
convinced Governor Glendening to put it into his capital
queue. Governor Ehrlich agreed to fund its construction
and now Governor O'Malley is cutting the ribbon nine years
later. And that is the fast track! Congratulations to
Dean Norma Allewell and her entire team for their dedicated
effort for life sciences.
And Tawes is finally under renovation so English will
indeed have a home in summer of 2009, only 18 years after
moving into temporary surge space. A new wing on Van
Munching for Business will be opened in the spring, and
construction of a new Journalism building should start
in May. Both of these projects received substantial private
funding.
Our capital request for this year places a new physical
science complex as a top priority, and the state recognizes
the urgency to initiate this project. We have also included
projects for basic infrastructure upgrades in heating
and cooling, electrical systems and storm water management.
A public-private housing plan is underway in the West
campus area for 450 beds. This development will start
by the spring and be ready for occupancy by Fall 2009.
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