{"id":11148,"date":"2019-11-02T00:24:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2019-11-02T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:24:29","slug":"a-fusion-of-art-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/a-fusion-of-art-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"A fusion of art and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow<\/strong> |\u00a0<\/span>N<span>ews Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Oct. 18, the Natural Sciences building had its grand reopening, welcoming students and faculty alike to view the new premises after more than two years of remodelling the interior and exterior for student success. The renovations occured as part of Western\u2019s Campus Master Plan and the project had a total budget of $6 million, according to a 2016 team logistics meeting report. The renovations to the 45-year-old building were funded by capital building funds from the state of Oregon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students might have noticed the new pond outside of Western\u2019s Natural Sciences Building, but that\u2019s only the beginning of renovations that have been completed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re installing new equipment in the classrooms: new document cameras, new sound systems, we\u2019re installing laser-projectors now, which are fantastic\u2026\u201d said Equipment Systems Specialist, Nathan Sauer, in a WOUTV video titled \u201cNatural Science Remodel.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Overall, the newly remodeled building now includes upgraded labs, study spaces, and the renovated greenhouse on the roof. This is just one of many ongoing changes shaping Western\u2019s campus.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Contact the author at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:howlnews@wou.edu\">howlnews@wou.edu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sage Kiernan-Sherrow |\u00a0News Editor On Oct. 18, the Natural Sciences building had its grand reopening, welcoming students and faculty alike to view the new premises after more than two years of remodelling the interior and exterior for student success. The renovations occured as part of Western\u2019s Campus Master Plan and the project had a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}