Final Press Release 4

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oct. 21, 2008

Contact:

Kent Udy

LARC Supervisor

5600 Old Main Hill

Logan UT, 84323-5600

435-797-1886

kent.udy@usu.edu

NEW MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR ANIMAL RESEARCH BUILDING COMING TO USU

Logan UT- The Laboratory Animal Research Center at Utah State University is expanding its facilities. It has plans to start construction soon and open by 2010. The new center will allow for more research then ever expected by the researchers who were around when the current center was started. Supervisor Kent Udy said, "I have been here for decades and I would have never guessed that we would have the need for another facility, but with the way we have grown it is clear that Utah State University is fast becoming one of the bigger research Universities."

This new building is great news for the University. The more research we do, the more we become recognized, and in turn we receive more funding. The new facility will be able to house thousands of animals, ten times what the current facility can hold. Aaron Olsen, director of the Laboratory Animal Research Center, said, " we are at our maximum capacity of animals and still there is a need to house more. This new building will also allow us to have state of the art research tools and make out labs much more efficient. 

For more information on the center or any further questions please contact us.

Emily Metts

Public Relations Representative

874 E 800 N

Logan UT, 84321

555-555-5555

emily.metts@usu.edu