The second phase of the A. Paul Schaap Chemistry Building and Lecture Hall opened last week on Wayne State\'s campus, expanding and renovating the school\'s chemistry laboratories and classrooms to state-of-the-art levels. The $76 million project was funded by Wayne State University and a $10 million donation from A. Paul Schapp (a former chemistry professor at WSU) and his wife Carol through the Community Foundation of Southeastern Michigan. "The number of hoods had become too small to serve all the needs of the faculty and students, and the fume hoods, laboratory layout and furnishings were quite outdated," College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean Robert Thomas said in The South End article. The Chemistry Department has \"something of an entrepreneurial spirit,\" said Department of Chemistry chair Jim Rigby in the Model D story, producing three spinoff entrepreneurial ventures from the WSU labs in recent years. He says the facility modernization has the ability to create new economic activity.

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