{"id":1321,"date":"2022-07-05T18:22:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T18:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=1321"},"modified":"2022-07-05T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T20:43:34","slug":"a-hall-for-science","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/a-hall-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hall for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Soviet Union\u2019s successful launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 didn\u2019t just shock and embarrass the American political establishment, it led to a frantic game of superpower one-upmanship. Among the positive outcomes of the ensuing \u201cspace race\u201d was a renewed national interest in \u2014 and greatly increased funding for \u2014 university-based science and engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1318\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid wp-image-1318 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/0734-300-copy-e1657045229837.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/0734-300-copy-e1657045229837.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/0734-300-copy-e1657045229837-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers on the site of Eastern&#8217;s Hall of Science, completed in 1962.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At Eastern, the post-Sputnik boom helped make long-considered plans for a new Hall of Sciences a reality. Begun in the fall of 1960 and completed in 1962, the building ensured that \u201cevery department, including chemistry, biology, geology, physics and natural sciences has the most up-to-date equipment,\u201d as one contemporary account put it. Sixty years later, the Hall of Sciences, now the Science Building, is getting a long-overdue, state-funded makeover. It\u2019s a timely remodel that will ensure this \u201cSputnik-era building\u201d (see Page 11) will remain relevant, if not for another 60 years, then at least for a long stretch of what promises to be our own exciting era of discovery. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soviet Union\u2019s successful launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 didn\u2019t just shock and embarrass the American political establishment, it led to a frantic game of superpower one-upmanship. Among the positive outcomes of the ensuing \u201cspace race\u201d was a renewed national interest in \u2014 and greatly increased funding for \u2014 university-based science and<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/a-hall-for-science\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":1319,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1321","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_categories-science","stories_tags-spring-summer-2022"],"acf":{"subheading":"","featured_image_format":"cover","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"featured_video":"","Links":false,"Resources":false,"page_hide_sidebar":false,"page_enable_page_nav":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/1321\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}