MEDIA ADVISORY: GRAND OPENING FOR COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING FRIDAY APRIL 24

WHAT: Colorado State University will celebrate the completion of the $14 million Computer Science Building with a grand opening ceremony.  

WHEN/WHERE: The grand opening celebration will be 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, April 24 on the southwest corner of the new building, located on the plaza across from the Lory Student Center on the Colorado State campus.

DETAILS: There will be introductions and comments from 4-4:30 p.m. followed by refreshments, robot demonstrations, building tours and music from the Colorado State Scholarship Pep Band. Speakers at the event will include Interim Colorado State President Anthony A. Frank, Computer Science Department Chairman Darrell Whitley and Matt Brown, chair of the University Facility Fee Advisory Board.

The four-story, 45,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of the main campus includes three main laboratories on the ground floor, one of which is available to students 24 hours per day, seven days a week. Students began using the new facility in January at the start of the spring semester.

For more information and a complete list of events, contact Kelly Kimple at (970) 491-5506 or Kelly.Kimple@colostate.edu or visit the Computer Science Department at www.cs.colostate.edu/cstop/index.html.

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