PULLMAN, Wash., Sept. 21 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:

The new Schweitzer Engineering Hall was dedicated Friday, Sept. 18, with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting and a chorus of gratitude from Washington State University leadership and others for the broad public-private support that enabled the vision to take shape.

"It is transformational for WSU's future," said university President Betsy Cantwell. "It does give us an enormous new capacity to educate students, advance research, and we will demonstrate this to so many others. It brings people and ideas together, and it expands what the art of the possible is for us."

The 66,288-square-foot building serves as the central hub for WSU's Voiland College of Engi...