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Agriculture Consumer Science Center Project Begins At Stony Brook

Publication: The Southampton Press
  Oct 25, 2011 9:59 AM
Oct 28, 2011 10:35 AM
Stony Brook University President Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and local leaders broke ground on the Agriculture Consumer Science Center in Calverton on Monday, October 24.
Stony Brook University President Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and local leaders broke ground on the Agriculture Consumer Science Center in Calverton on Monday, October 24.
Construction of an 8,300-square-foot Agriculture Consumer Science Center is underway at the Stony Brook University Calverton Business Incubator. One year after announcing the open bidding process for the construction of the center, Stony Brook University President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr., State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and other local leaders broke ground at the construction site on Monday, October 24.

The ACSC is being developed to help regional wine and agricultural producers and local entrepreneurs develop new, marketable consumer items and enhance their product lines through access to state-of-the-art shared processing areas and collaboration with other researchers, scientists and professionals at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the New York State Small Business Development Center.

Stony Brook announced in March 2010 that through the efforts of Senator LaValle, the University would... more

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