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New Science Center Opens

August 29, 2012

Georgetown’s new science center – Regents Hall – has opened its doors to the university community.

John J. DeGioia speaks behind a podium while raising his hands

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, Kevin O'Brien turns to throw water on the building while others look on behind a ribbon

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, Jane Hopkins Carey, Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Chester Gillis, John DeGioia and YuYe Tong cut a ribbon

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, A view looks across a patio at the new Regents Hall with a grassy lawn below

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, A view from an upper floor shows students walking past a sign for Regents Hall

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, People walk past a staircase with furniture beneath it in Regents Hall

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, View from the top of a staircase which is lined by glass with equations written on it

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, A window on a door shows the inside of a classroom with students and a professor lecturing

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, Students lounge in furniture next to a digital display with a directory for Regents Hall

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, A lab shows tables and equipment in a brightly lit space

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, Plants sit in the middle of a brick patio outside Regents Hall with a lawn down below

Georgetown President John J. DeGioia welcomes students, alumni, faculty and staff to the Regents Hall building dedication ceremony.

Regents Hall houses most of faculty for the biology, chemistry and physics departments along with labs, classrooms and open communal spaces for students in the sciences.

The new facility also is home to Georgetown’s Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, funded in part through a $6.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. The institute conducts research into materials that are neither liquids nor solids, such as liquid crystals, gels, colloids, polymers and foams.

An official opening ceremony for Regents Hall will take place Oct. 4.

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