Topping Out the New Bioinformatics Building (Photo: Wade Bruton)

On Thursday ( 7/17/08 ) was the topping out ceremony for the new bioinformatics building located at UNC Charlotte’s CRI campus. As one of the speakers at the event put it ‘the 20th century was about electronics, the 21st century will be about bioinformatics.’ I’m glad to see that Charlotte has the foresight to begin working on this now, but I wouldn’t expect anything less. I also think there’s a great opportunity for collaboration on bioinformatics between the College of Computing and Informatics and the College of Engineering.

A topping out ceremony is a Scandinavian tradition where the last beam is ceremonially lifted into place with an evergreen tree sitting atop.