* WHO :* Provost Gerald Lang; John Weete, president of the WVU Research Corp. and vice president for research and economic development; Rudolph P. Almasy, dean of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences; Thomas H. Myers, interim director of Nanosciences Initiative; Earl Scime, chairman of the Department of Physics; David Lederman, physics professor.

WHAT: Dedication of multifunctional materials lab

WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 1, 4-5 p.m.

WHERE: Hallway outside 330 Hodges Hall, Downtown Campus

DETAILS: The new state-of-the-art multifunctional materials laboratory in the Department of Physics will consist of equipment used to create and characterize nanoscale structures and systems. This laboratory will foster collaboration across WVU campus in the area of nanoscale science and engineering. Nanoscale particles are extremely small, about 1/1,000 th the width of human hair or smaller.