The Graduate Research Building, which opened in 1968 and served as Texas Woman’s hub for research, will be razed this summer to make space for a new building to house the Merrilee Alexander Kick College of Business and Entrepreneurship.

The venerable science building contained labs, offices and a vivarium and served as a center for discovery for decades until the outdated edifice was in need of major repairs and an update. It was replaced it in 2021 with the state-of-the-art Scientific Research Commons. TWU leaders, faculty, staff and some longtime researchers took part in a special ceremony recently to acknowledge the contributions that took place in the GRB over the years.