A £15 million investment by University of Glamorgan into a new campus for sport and science students will be officially opened on Friday, 30th April by Dr Kim Howells, former Pontypridd MP.
The new facility on the Glyntaff campus, which includes an impressive renovation of the grade II listed former Pontypridd Girls Grammar school building, provides a state-of-the-art learning environment for the scientists of tomorrow.
The newly built George Knox building provides a dramatic centre piece to the campus with its glass frontage reflecting the colours of the PH Scale. The building is home to ultra-modern laboratories which will help deliver an advanced learning experience to students.
A large physiology laboratory for the testing of human performance and health is at the disposal of sports coaching and exercise science students, while geography and environmental science students are being taught using the latest applied-GIS and environmental modelling software in large and bespoke teaching computer laboratories.
Medical and other biological science students can learn in a microbiology and molecular research laboratories in the new science building at the University is proud to boast the most modern Analytical Chemistry laboratories in the UK.
Dean of the Faculty of Health, Sport and Science Professor Donna Mead OBE said, “This vibrant development brings together on one campus the Health, Sport and Sciences programmes and create an excellent learning and teaching environment for our next generation of scientists.”
