THE ARTS AND RECREATION
An artistic rendering of Kennesaw State's Science Lab Addition
well as faculty and administrative offices and an atrium. The 73,000-square-foot lab facility will allow Kennesaw State to offer its new master’s in integrative biology and a master’s in chemistry, which is expected in the near future. The College of Science and Mathematics will have more capacity to offer specialized courses in the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences. Next to the new Science Lab Addition, a $26 million student housing facility opened in August 2012. The 207,500-square-foot apartment complex, located right on the entrance to the Kennesaw State campus, added 451 beds to campus housing. With the new housing facility, University Place II, the university offers a total of almost 3,500 beds. With the additional capacity, nearly 15 percent of KSU students will live on campus.
Creating new space for the arts is also a priority when it comes to facilities. The Board of Regents approved in spring 2012 the $3 million expansion of the KSU Art Museum. Construction is expected to be completed in March 2013. The 9,200-squarefoot addition will provide a permanent facility to display the university’s growing and diverse art collection and also will feature a center for interdisciplinary research. Kennesaw State has nearly 1,000 pieces of art in its permanent art collection, including works by Marc Chagall, Rembrandt Peale, Viola Frey, Norman Rockwell and Pierre-Auguste Renoir but many have not been publicly exhibited due to lack of space. The museum’s expanded facility also will showcase 100 sculptures by Ruth Zuckerman in one of the new building’s major wings, the all-glass Ruth V. Zuckerman Pavilion. Following the 2009 opening of the KSU Sports & Recreation Park and the subsequent unveiling of the KSU Soccer Stadium in May 2010, the university has been working to expand its sports and recreation facilities east of Chastain Road. In spring 2012, the opening of Phase III of the university’s 88-acre sports and recreation park added much needed space for club and intramural sports. The newly completed section includes five synthetic-turf fields, two naturalturf fields, a 9,000-square-foot amenities building, a .92-mile walking/jogging trail and a lake. Prior to 2009, KSU only had a 1.7-acre field on the main campus for intramural and club sports. Club teams had to practice in fields as far as Woodstock and Alpharetta due to the lack of facilities. 2011-2012 Annual Report
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