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NC State Dedicates Math, Stats Building
$32M structure named sAs Hall after software company
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orth Carolina State University formally
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dedicated its new mathematics and statis-
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tics building on Friday, May 1. At a dedi-
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Chancellor James L. Oblinger announced for the of
first time that the building will be named SAS Hall,
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in honor of the founders of the software company
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based in Cary, North Carolina.
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The 119,000-square-foot building will house
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state-of-the-art classrooms, computer labs, tutorial
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centers, and meeting and study space for students t
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and faculty from NC State’s mathematics and sta- Sta
tistics departments. A partnership with Cisco will
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improve digital communications for students by
providing access to live and on-demand video con-
tent from anywhere on campus.
From left: D. McQueen Campbell, chair of the board of trustees; Dan
Construction of the $32 million building was
solomon, dean of the College of Physical and Mathematical sciences; Loek
made possible by the Higher Education Bond Helminck, head of the Department of Mathematics; John sall, cofounder
Referendum passed by North Carolinians in 2000, of sAs; Jim Goodnight, cofounder of sAs; sastry Pantula, head of the
as well as by gifts from private donors, including a
Department of statistics; and Jim Oblinger, chancellor
substantial contribution from SAS.
SAS was born out of a research project that began
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in the NC State Department of Statistics in the early
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1970s. Since then, the company has grown into one
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of the largest software providers in the world. Two
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and Executive Vice President John Sall, as well as
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their spouses, remain close partners and staunch of
supporters of the department and university.
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“At SAS, we believe it is vital for students in the
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mathematical and statistical sciences to learn in an
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environment that provides state-of-the-art facili-
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ties and instructional technologies,” Sall said. “It’s
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also critical that they participate in the kind of col- t
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laborative initiatives they’ll experience in the work Sta
place. That type of environment produces the type
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of employee and person we want at SAS, and it’s
the type we want to produce at NC State. That’s
why we decided to make a significant contribution sAs Hall, named in honor of the founders of the Cary, North Carolina, soft-
toward ensuring that this building would become ware company
a reality.”
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