OCTOBER 29, 1999
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THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA OCTOBER 29, 1999 |
| Lab instructor Norrie Buckler stands in one of two renovated second-year organic chemistry labs in the Elliott Building. The two labs, plus a lab prep room, have been given a complete facelift, including new fumehoods and counters, and a revamped ventilation system. The two-year renovation cost just over $1 million.
The labs had not been remodelled since Elliott was opened in 1963. “In the last few years, we’d started to get complaints that the labs were too old-fashioned,” says Buckler, who used the original labs for 26 years, first as a student, and then as a lab instructor since 1967. “The main concerns were space and air quality, and we never seemed to have enough fumehoods,” she says. The ‘new’ labs seat 20 students (compared to 16 - 18 before) and are “absolutely fabulous,” she raves. “I’ve taught many labs, but this is the first time that students have actually come up and thanked me!” |
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