Kaira Thevenin, a Stetson University junior, says she spends more time in Sage Hall, the 1967 science building, than her home. The Apopka health sciences major and her fellow students will have a brand-new building, the Brown Hall for Health & Innovation, which was feted Friday at ribbon-cutting ceremony. The $19 million, 40,000-square-foot, two-story structure is connected to Sage Hall by a glass walkway, and moves environmental and health sciences labs under one roof.
For Thevenin, who has become passionate about research by working with assistant professor Kristine Dye to study Merkel cell polyomavirus and its links to cancer, Brown Hall serves as a spark of inspiration.
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