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By Sheron Smith
New Building Wing Enhances STEM Instruction
on MGA’s Warner Robins Campus
If she had to, Emily White of Warner Robins The addition made it possible for Middle
was willing to drive to Middle Georgia State Georgia State (MGA) to begin offering a full
University’s Macon Campus to take the complement of lab courses, including chemis-
chemistry class she needed. try and anatomy and physiology, on the Warner
But she wasn’t thrilled about it. Robins Campus. Until now, students in Warner
“I would have had to leave earlier to get to Robins had to commute to the Macon Campus
class and fight the traffic,” said the 18-year-old for those classes.
freshman, who plans to major in nursing. “All of “It’s much better for the students, no question
my other classes were on the Warner Robins about it,” said Dr. Ron Williams, dean of the
Campus, so I was really glad when this place College of Arts and Sciences, who taught chem-
opened.” istry in the new facility this spring. “The classes
“This place” is the Warner Robins Campus’s filled up as soon as we listed them.”
new STEM wing, which opened at the beginning The $5 million wing’s classrooms and labs
of spring semester 2018. A 16,000 square-foot support degree programs related to STEM –
expansion to Oak Hall, the STEM wing features health and natural sciences, technology,
four state-of-the-art labs, study areas, and a engineering, and math – on the Warner Robins
collaborative learning room. Campus. For the Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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