Brenda Edleston, Dean of the Geary County Campus of Cloud County Community College is pursuing a Rural Development Grant to fund upgrades for the campus’s original science building.

Edleston explained that the original science building has not been updated in the past 15 plus years. Along with the upgrades the she is hoping to have the grant fund the purchase of an electronic cadaver.

“This is not a human body cadaver, like they do have in Concordia,” Edleston explained. “We do not have the facilities to accommodate a human body cadaver. This is computerized, it’s about a six foot table with a glass top, and it’s a computer display screen. It projects a 3-D interactive model of the human body and students can investigate the organs and the systems they are learning about in Human Anatomy and Physiology. It’s very interactive.”

The grant does not require a dollar for dollar match according to Edleston and Geary County would not be fiscally responsible for the updates to the building. The grant does ask for an in kind contribution in place of a match and Cloud County Community College would be responsible for that contribution.

Edleston is currently working on writing and applying for the grant. It is unknown when the college could hear back on the grant request.