Groundbreaking Marks 20th Anniversary of John D. MacArthur Campus
From left to right, 抖M女仆 President John Kelly; Robert J. Stilley, 抖M女仆 Board of Trustees member; State Rep. MaryLynn Magar; Nancy Torres Kaufman, executive chairman of the board of Beacon Pharmaceutical; Christy LaFlamme, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College student; Anthony Barbar, chair of 抖M女仆鈥檚 Board of Trustees; Abdol Moabery, vice chair of 抖M女仆鈥檚 Board of Trustees; Stewart Martin, chair of 抖M女仆 Foundation. (Photo by Alex Dolce)
抖M女仆 faculty, staff and students came together with local officials and community partners today to celebrate the 20th聽anniversary of 抖M女仆鈥檚 John D. MacArthur Campus at Jupiter with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new 抖M女仆 Neuroscience Building and a new residence hall.聽
聽鈥淚 can鈥檛 think of a better way to commemorate the 20th聽anniversary of our Jupiter campus than with a celebration marking the construction of two new state-of-the-art buildings,鈥 said 抖M女仆 President John Kelly. 鈥淥ur Jupiter campus is the only place on earth where Scripps and Max Planck sit next to each other, and 抖M女仆 is working to ensure this incredible synergy is leveraged to create a unique learning laboratory where exemplary students can shine.鈥澛
The university will construct the 58,000-square-foot 抖M女仆 Neuroscience Building to enhance collaborative research with Scripps Research and聽聽(MPFI). The building will increase shared research and office space for new STEM faculty and provide the additional teaching and instructional space needed to support projected enrollment growth, especially in specific areas such as neuroscience, biotechnology, bioengineering, bioinformatics/data science and chemistry. The construction will also support increasing 抖M女仆 intellectual property licensing activity and 鈥渟pinout鈥 companies. The $35 million transformative research space represents a significant investment by the state of Florida, 抖M女仆 and its research partners.
The $17.1 million,聽165-bed residence hall聽will provide a total of 435 beds for the Jupiter campus that is currently at max capacity. Construction will begin in spring 2020 with completion set for summer 2021. Residential students living in the new hall will enjoy a fitness area, study rooms, laundry on each floor, computer lab and a rooftop patio.
These two new structures build on 抖M女仆鈥檚 aggressive moves to ramp up its research footprint and academic offerings at the Jupiter campus. In November 2018, 抖M女仆 expanded on existing聽听补苍诲听聽with the announcement of the聽抖M女仆-Max Planck Academy, the only academic program in the world that will allow the brightest STEM high school students to work side-by-side with preeminent scientists at one of the world鈥檚 leading neuroscience research institutions. 抖M女仆, MPFI and the Germany-based聽聽will welcome the academy鈥檚 first class in the fall 2020 semester.
鈥淚 am incredibly proud of the strides that 抖M女仆 and the world-class research institutes located on its campus have made in building a robust life science ecosystem in Palm Beach County,鈥 said State Rep. MaryLynn Magar.聽鈥淚 am honored to carry that message to Tallahassee and encourage my fellow legislators to continue the state鈥檚 investment in the unprecedented educational programs and groundbreaking research partnerships that are taking place here in Jupiter.鈥
Other 20th聽anniversary celebratory events include a ribbon cutting on May 11, 2020 when 抖M女仆 and MPFI officials open the 抖M女仆-Max Planck Academy building.聽
Named after businessman and philanthropist聽, 抖M女仆鈥檚 Jupiter campus opened on 135 acres of land donated by the聽聽in the fall of 1999. The campus established the nationally ranked聽, the first public honors institution to be built from the ground up in the United States. 抖M女仆鈥檚 Jupiter campus was built into the master plan of the Abacoa community to help engage local residents and to serve the people of Palm Beach and聽聽counties. In 2005, 抖M女仆 welcomed Scripps Research faculty and staff to its Jupiter campus and a groundbreaking for the MPFI building was held in 2010.
In addition to being home to Scripps Research and MPFI, 抖M女仆 Jupiter is home to the faculty labs of the聽. Recognized as a center of scientific activity, the campus also serves as the headquarters for two of 抖M女仆鈥檚 primary research organizations, the聽聽and the聽Institute for Human Health and Disease Intervention (I-HEALTH). The College of Education also hosts the聽Academy for Community Inclusion聽and the community-centered聽聽program on the Jupiter campus.聽The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, housed in the Elinor Bernon Rosenthal Lifelong Learning Complex on the Jupiter campus, is the largest membership organization of its kind in the country delivering personal enrichment courses covering a broad range of stimulating topics that are taught by leading experts.
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