Science Center
Who Benefits?
Current and Prospective Students
A new facility, with its dramatically expanded resources—class and lab space, as well as new research equipment—will have a significant impact on student access to classes, exposure to research, and the ability to attract and recruit new students. The center will enable tomorrow’s doctors, teachers, geneticists, engineers, nurses, dentists, physical therapists, and scientists to apply APU’s signature brand of Christian leadership in a field at times filled with ethical and moral ambiguity.
Faculty and Research
The prominent new Science Center will enhance APU’s institutional and academic reputation. Alongside the faculty’s commitment to teaching and student mentoring, a technically advanced and well-equipped science facility will increase the scope and productivity of research by current professors—all of whom hold doctoral degrees—and attract more of the nation’s best to teach, research, and innovate. APU’s ability to attract research funding and investment will also be significantly enhanced through this facility.
Community
For years, APU has sought to increase local access for young people to the sciences. Each year, local students attend enrichment math and science classes, middle school GATE Program students are stretched through special classes, and high school students enroll in rigorous preparatory courses and complete summer research projects to expand their knowledge and earn college credit. The opportunity to partner with local schools to access equipment that far surpasses strapped school district budgets—such as NMR and electron microscopes—will make a huge contribution to the scholarship of our community.
As the most fiscally significant undertaking in the university's history, the new Science Center will place APU at the vanguard of academic excellence in the new century, preparing qualified graduates to serve in the vital fields of science, education, and health care.
- View the Construction Photo Gallery
- Watch a short film on Jon Milhon, Ph.D., associate professor of biology and chemistry
- Give online
Get Involved
To learn more about the project and how you can give, contact the Office of University Advancement at (626) 815-5333 or development@apu.edu.
