MILWAUKEE – The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) will host a groundbreaking for the new Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC), the first new academic building on the UWM campus in more than a decade.
The outdoor event will be held Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 3209 N. Maryland Avenue (the southeast corner of Lapham Hall) beginning at 3 p.m.
With $75 million from the Milwaukee Initiative and an additional $1.6 million gift from Alfred and Isabel Bader, the 93,000-square-foot first building of the complex is the largest investment in a single building in UWM history.
Phase I of the complex will eventually include a second building on the southeast corner of Kenwood Boulevard and Maryland Avenue.
KIRC will address the most urgent academic and research needs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Completion of the north building is expected in early 2015.
The Physics Department will be the anchor tenant of the first building. UWM’s Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, which will be housed in the KIRC, will be named in honor of UWM Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics Leonard Parker, former director of the center.
A reception follows groundbreaking in the Lapham Hall lobby.
