The morning sun is shining on brand-new classroom buildings, barns, and rows of greenhouses. Tennessee State University students, officials and construction workers pass out souvenir scissors for a ribbon cutting.
The university's College of Agriculture maintains a working farm right in the middle of North Nashville. But the farm suffered a direct hit during the March 2020 tornadoes. Almost all of the farm buildings needed to be completely replaced.
Grace Colvin is a senior studying to become a veterinarian. For her whole time at TSU, she's worked in a temporary trailer. She says the new buildings will have features like better climate control, which will make experiments much easier.
"We do a lot of heat tolerance and breeding stuff with the goats and with the bulls," she said. "And so, having the new facilities, the new labs, we can do more efficient research."
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