A host of Memorial University and government officials were on hand this afternoon for the official opening of the new Core Science building on Prince Philip Parkway in St. John’s.
The modern building’s atrium features the skeletal remains of one of a number of blue whales trapped and crushed in sea ice, off the province’s west coast back in the spring of 2014.
The $325 million dollar facility includes three pavilions separated by two vertical spaces, which focus on putting science on display.
It houses both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and opened to students in September.
More than 3000 undergraduate and hundreds of graduate student use the building each week for labs and seminars.
Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan acknowledges all those who built the facility.
He says the facility will be a “pillar of science education in Newfoundland and Labrador for years to come”.@VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/uhpmAA19Fh
— Noah Sheppard (@SheppardNoah14) November 26, 2021
