{"id":5261,"date":"2024-01-24T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:20:07","slug":"construction-continues-on-center-for-materials-and-manufacturing-sciences-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/construction-continues-on-center-for-materials-and-manufacturing-sciences-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction continues on Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Troy University has provided an update on one of its newest buildings that remains under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For several months, construction crews have worked to build TROY&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-sciences\/departments\/school-science-technology\/center-materials-manufacturing-services\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences<\/a> building. According to the center&#8217;s website, the facility &#8220;will serve as a fully integrated multi-disciplinary research facility that will serve across majors and academic ranks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The new building is unlike any other we have on campus,&#8221; said School of Science and Technology Director Dr. Govind Menon. &#8220;It is meant entirely for research.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the center&#8217;s main focuses will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J32rbBkTzNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obtaining reusable materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The center focuses on polymer science and its applications, in particular, plastics recycling is a big issue that we have taken on,&#8221; Menon explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the facility itself isn&#8217;t complete, students have already begun working to ensure the center&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The center has been active for three years now,&#8221; Menon told TrojanVision. &#8220;Student Scholars are a part of the center. In fact, we have some paid positions. There are students who get paid to do research so this has been happening since day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Construction on the center is expected to be finished by the end of the Spring semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Troy University has provided an update on one of its newest buildings that remains under construction. <\/p>\n<p>For several months, construction crews have worked to build TROY&#8217;s Center for Materials and Manufacturing Sciences building. According to the center&#8217;s website, the facility &#8220;will serve as a fully integrated multi-disciplinary research facility that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/01\/24\/construction-continues-on-center-for-materials-and-manufacturing-sciences-building\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[675,1364],"topics":[3,17],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-center-for-materials-and-manufacturing-sciences","tag-govind-menon","topics-college-of-arts-and-sciences","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}