Topeka ? The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved renovation projects at Kansas University’s Nichols Hall and Dyche Hall to improve and modernize those facilities.

The Nichols Hall renovation will cost $4.7 million, and the Dyche Hall renovation will cost $1.5 million. Both will be funded from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Nichols Hall project entails renovating and expanding the Bioinformatics Computing Facility Core. In Dyche Hall, a suite of research labs and a server room will be renovated.