Science Teaching Laboratory Facility: The Science Teaching Laboratory Facility anticipates the incorporation of several teaching laboratories for the life sciences. Many similar laboratories exist within several buildings around the central campus. A central teaching facility will improve the learning environments and provide technology based educational resources for the sciences. The existing laboratories have mechanical systems that make teaching and learning difficult. The existing laboratories will provide the skeleton for conversion into research laboratories supporting the growing research enterprise at the university.

School of Energy Resources: The university envisions a facility that will serve two purposes. First, it will house offices, meeting space and laboratories for operations central to the school. Included will be research laboratories focused on rock and fluid physics, underground resource characterization, chemical and thermodynamic properties of fossil fuels, computational modeling, and carbon technologies. Also included will be office space for the director of the school, suites for several research centers operated under the Institute for Energy Research (including the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute), office space, publication facilities, and space for public presentations. Second, the facility will provide a common working environment for faculty numbers, students, and researchers from the wide array of disciplines that contribute to the school. The central concept will be to recreate, in an academic setting, the interdisciplinary research environment common in industrial organizations and the nation’s top-tier national laboratories. Such an environment will encourage day-to-day interaction between chemical engineers, geophysicists, mathematicians, economists, petroleum engineers, and others, providing a rich and practically oriented educational experience for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.

University Police Facility: As part of a parking study and a request for a parking facility the 2006 Wyoming Legislature chose to appropriate funds for the replacement of the University Police Facility that co-exists with the Division Information Technology in the Ivinson Building. The Level 2 planning had been completed on a combined parking structure and police facility. With the legislative appropriation. the focus will turn to the design and construction of a Campus Police Facility. Construction is anticipated begin in mid-2007.