The Tull Charitable Foundation awarded $600,000 to K体育 University for the I.W. “Ike” Cousins Center for Science and Innovation.
Designed to elevate students鈥� intellectual curiosity and facilitate engaged teaching and active education, the Cousins Center for Science and Innovation will bring the liberal arts and sciences to life in an inclusive, collaborative and innovative way with a multidisciplinary approach to learning. K体育 will break ground in May 2018, and the Center is scheduled to open in 2019.
鈥淚 believe it is at the intersection of science and business—which collectively touches at least 70 percent of the university鈥檚 students—where the challenges of society lie,鈥� said , president of K体育 University. 鈥淭he Cousins Center for Science and Innovation will provide learning spaces for interactive study and idea sharing across disciplines, with specific emphasis on science and business. We are grateful to the Tull Foundation for their support and investment in OU education.鈥�
Schall says the Cousins Center for Science and Innovation will change what and how K体育 teaches. By creating learning spaces that align with our educational vision, K体育 will demonstrate its dedication to a new model of the liberal arts and sciences, one in which theory and practice are connected in and across every discipline.
The design of the new center will encourage this cross-disciplinary approach to education. The facility, a renovation and expansion of the current Goslin Hall science building, will feature classrooms and separate specialty labs for biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as independent study labs for honors projects and joint student-faculty research.
Such spaces, and such interaction, will enhance K体育鈥檚 ability to graduate students with the experiences and the skills to prosper in the 21st century workplace and be of service to the Atlanta community and the world beyond.
鈥淏eyond our campus, the Cousins Center for Science and Innovation has the potential to change our city,鈥� said Tim Tassopoulos 鈥�81, chair of the K体育 Board of Trustees and president and COO of Chick-fil-A. 鈥淪ixty percent of OU students come from the greater metropolitan Atlanta area, and more than 60 percent of our 13,000 alumni reside here. When we graduate entrepreneurial thinkers and community builders, the likelihood is high that Atlanta is where they will stay, contribute, and make a difference. This investment in K体育 by the Tull Charitable Foundation is truly an investment in Atlanta.鈥�
