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Sen. Reed, Mayor Cicilline to help celebrate start of new Brown labs
Brown University will host a reception and news conference to celebrate the start of work on two new life sciences research facilities. Sen. Jack Reed, Mayor David Cicilline and others will join University officials Monday, Nov. 17, at the Doran-Speidel Building, 70 Ship St. The building is being retrofitted as a laboratory facility, to open in fall 2004. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown President Ruth J. Simmons and Provost Robert J. Zimmer will host a reception and press conference at 10 a.m. Monday, Nov. 17, 2003, on the third floor of the Doran-Speidel Building, 70 Ship St. in the Providence Jewelry District. The reception celebrates the start of work on two large laboratory facilities: a new Life Sciences Building to open on the Brown campus in spring of 2006 and renovation of the Doran-Speidel Building to open in fall 2004. Together, the two new facilities will increase the University’s life science laboratory space by 75 percent. Sen. Jack Reed will speak about federal investment in these research spaces, and Mayor David Cicilline will discuss their significance for the city. Tours of the Ship Street facility will follow. Because this is an active construction site, the reception is open only to press and the University’s invited guests. Who Public officials: U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, Mayor David Cicilline, Saul Kaplan of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation What Where When ###### News Service Home | Top of File | e-Subscribe | Brown Home Page |