{"id":971,"date":"2025-09-12T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/2025\/09\/12\/2025-09-12-smith-hall-to-be-dedicated\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:09:55","slug":"2025-09-12-smith-hall-to-be-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/2025\/09\/12\/2025-09-12-smith-hall-to-be-dedicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith Hall to be\u00a0dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#63635c;margin-bottom:22px;font-size:0.85rem;font-style:italic\">By <a href=\"\/thecollegian\/tag\/matthew-purucker\/\">Matthew Purucker<\/a> &middot; News Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">William Smith Jr. and his wife, Dieva Smith, lead donors and the namesakes of the recently renovated Smith Hall of Science and Technology, will be on campus, along with Grove City College officials, to dedicate the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dedication will take place during a ceremony and reception at 4 p.m. today at Smith Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a Grove City College news release, Smith Hall is the most expensive construction project in the history of the college. The privately funded project totaled $48 million and took two years to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The renovation expanded the former Rockwell Hall of Science, built 94 years ago, to 100,000 square feet to support STEM education at the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project revamped all four floors of Rockwell Hall, the college\u2019s first academic building. It redesigned everything except the building\u2019s tower, and a connecting structure between Rockwell and STEM Hall was constructed, per the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The completion of Smith Hall brought upgrades to labs for the biology, chemistry, engineering, exercise science and physics departments. The project created collaborative and study spaces, and added equipment and technology to expand the research potential for those departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Smith Jr. and his wife, Dieva Smith, lead donors and the namesakes of the recently renovated Smith Hall of Science and Technology, will be on campus, along with Grove City College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[91,18,30],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","tag-matthew-purucker","tag-news","tag-issue-2025-09-12"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ian Schartner","author_link":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/author\/schartnerij23\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"William Smith Jr. and his wife, Dieva Smith, lead donors and the namesakes of the recently renovated Smith Hall of Science and Technology, will be on campus, along with Grove City College","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuorgs2.gcc.edu\/thecollegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}