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1968 The Graduate Research Building housed Denton campus scientists for 50+ years. Photo: TWU Special Collections > 2020 The new Scientific Research Commons supports the study of everything from biotechnology to opioid alternatives. THEN AND NOW More to explore New Scientific Research Commons gives students more space ONE WAS BUILT IN 1968, an unassuming three-story building that replaced the old Home Economics Building. The other, nearly four times larger, is a stateof-the-art facility that opened in the fall of 2020. Both the venerable Graduate Research Building and the new Scientific Research Commons, though, have the same purpose—to provide space for world changing research. The older building has been the site of such research for more than five decades. Today, students and faculty are exploring, among other things, a native Texas plant that may be a non-addictive opioid replacement. The Scientific Research Commons is devoted mostly to graduate and undergraduate research in biology, chemistry and biochemistry, nutrition and food sciences, and psychology and philosophy. The SRC, which opened during the pandemic, is also home to a new professional science master’s program in biotechnology, one of only two such programs in Texas. 14 TEXAS WOMAN’S
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