Commerce, Texas
Texas A&M University-Commerce opened its new $28-million Science Building in January 2006. The three-story, 110,000-sf facility will be officially dedicated on April 4, 2006. The building will house the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and earth and environmental sciences. The centerpiece of the project is an 87-seat planetarium featuring a 40-foot tilted dome and a Digistar 3 projection system that can display both video, DVD, and 3-D graphics, enabling the planetarium to be used as a visual vehicle for applications including models of molecules or engineering designs viewable from different angles and perspectives.
