URI to celebrate opening of $68M Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences

RICHARD BEAUPRE, founder and CEO of Lincoln-based ChemArt, joins Winifred Brownell, dean of the University of Rhode Island's College of Arts and Sciences, outside the newly named Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION/JOE GIBLIN
RICHARD BEAUPRE, founder and CEO of Lincoln-based ChemArt, joins Winifred Brownell, dean of the University of Rhode Island's College of Arts and Sciences, outside the newly named Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION/JOE GIBLIN

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A ribbon cutting will be held for the new $68 million Richard E. Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences at the University of Rhode Island on Tuesday morning.

Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello, URI President David M. Dooley and URI Foundation board member and former CVS Caremark chief Thomas M. Ryan, class of 1975, are expected to attend, as well as Richard Beaupre, the building’s namesake, an alumnus and longtime supporter who donated $2.5 million toward the project.
Beaupre is CEO of ChemArt Co. in Lincoln.

The 134,623-square-foot center is funded in large part by a $61 million bond issue approved by Rhode Island voters in the 2010 election. It will house the university’s chemistry department.
More than 7,000 students enroll in chemistry classes each year at URI.
It replaces Pastore Hall, which was built in 1953 to accommodate 800 students.

The Beaupre Center also will house a federal Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response; it triples the amount of space for teaching labs and nearly doubles the space for research laboratories, according to the university.

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