College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

• March 14, 2008

  Board of Regents name new chemistry building Hach Hall
  
  

• The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, have approved the name of the new chemistry facility at Iowa State University.
  
  The new building will be called Hach Hall for Iowa State alumnus Clifford Hach (deceased) and his wife Kathryn Hach Darrow. They formed the Hach Chemical Co. in Ames in 1947.
  
  Hach Darrow pledged a $10 million gift towards the construction of the new chemistry building on the campus of Iowa State University. The $74.5 million project is being planned as a three-story, 135,000-square-foot facility. Groundbreaking is scheduled for September 2008 with an anticipated completion date of August 2010.

  Hach Darrow is a longtime supporter of Iowa State dating back to the 1940s when she met her husband Clifford on campus. He graduated in 1947 and went on to be a trailblazer and innovator in the chemistry field, and holder of 34 patents. The Hachs experienced their first major success through the development of a simplified titration method for measuring hardness in drinking water. Clifford Hach died in 1990.

  In 1999, the Hach Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Danaher Corporation. The Hach Company corporate headquarters are located in Loveland, Colo. More than 500 employees work in Loveland, and about 300 are employed in Ames.

  The first floor of the new chemistry building will be dedicated to the undergraduate teaching laboratories and student interaction space. The second and third floors will be dedicated to research where faculty, staff and graduate assistants will work. Some labs will be reserved for recruiting new faculty to Iowa State. The new facility will be built northwest of Gilman Hall, current home to the department of chemistry. Gilman Hall will continue to hold general classrooms, computer labs, offices and laboratories.

  The Iowa Legislature has approved $58.9 million for the project with an additional $15.6 million anticipated through private support. Including the Hach pledge, fundraising dollars total $14.7 million for the new chemistry building. Additional private funds raised beyond the $15.6 goal will be used for laboratory equipment and classroom enhancements that current construction costs do not include.

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