Bob and Laura Reynolds be part of (from remaining) Milan Puskar Dean Josh Corridor and West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in slicing a ribbon to open up Reynolds Hall, the new residence of the John Chambers Higher education of Organization and Economics, Aug. 26, 2022.
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Reynolds Hall, the futuristic 186,000-sq.-foot complicated set to rework discovering and analysis in higher ed, is formally open for enterprise. 

The new home of the West Virginia University John Chambers University of Organization and Economics, Reynolds Hall held its grand opening and ribbon reducing ceremony Friday (Aug. 26) with its namesakes, Bob and Laura Reynolds, on hand. 

The building began as the vision of Bob Reynolds, president and CEO of Putnam Investments, Clarksburg native and 1974 finance graduate of WVU. 

When that eyesight has appear to fruition much more than 5 several years right after the Reynolds’ $10 million present to kickstart building, the opening of the complicated does not signify an finish. It is a beginning for propelling academic factors of company schooling at WVU – and for uniting the University in an open, modern surroundings that has adjusted the landscape of the Monongahela River waterfront and capabilities experiential-discovering lecture rooms, a real-time inventory ticker, personal computer labs, a 300-seat auditorium, an inviting atrium and a social stairwell modeled after just one at Google headquarters, 50 review rooms, a café and eating area, inexperienced house and a exercise heart. 

“We observed that West Virginia was at the threshold of reinventing alone, and we thought that the most effective way to do that was from the within,” Bob Reynolds reported, on what motivated them to give. “This is a making that will remodel entrepreneurship in the state by training the upcoming generation to believe differently about organization from day 1.”

Reynolds Hall guarantees to be much more than just a new framework on campus. Large-tech, arms-on discovering spaces contain the Wehrle World Provide Chain Lab, Roll Capital Marketplaces Lab and labs devoted to social media and marketing and advertising, facts analytics and cybersecurity. Within just those people labs, school will get the job done straight with…