Source: John Hart, FARM PROGRESS, 1/20/22


After nearly a decade of planning, fundraising and construction, the North Carolina State University Plant Sciences Building will be formally dedicated on April 12. Construction is nearly complete for the $160.2 million, 185,000 square foot, five-story building. Researchers will begin moving in come March. The impressive building is located on North Carolina State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh. Both the building and the plant sciences initiative itself are unique; there is nothing quite like it anywhere else on the globe. Hopefully, the initiative will become better known, beyond the North Carolina agriculture...

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