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President updates faculty on construction projects 1:07 p.m., Oct. 11, 2006--President David P. Roselle told the semiannual General Faculty Meeting on Monday, Oct. 9, that recently completed construction projects on campus totaled $145 million, “the largest amount of construction and repairs completed in any previous six month period.” With the addition of McKean and Smith residence halls to the Laird Residence Hall complex this fall, Roselle said that the $72 million project, including George Read Hall that opened in 2005, makes a total of 1,000 beds available. Roselle said that the final phase of the Laird complex will begin in March. This phase includes a $51 million residence hall with 600 additional beds. “Construction should be finished by the fall of 2008,” he said. He told the faculty the completion of this third phase of construction will allow execution of a plan in which older residence halls on campus are renovated. Roselle urged the faculty to visit the recently opened Center for the Arts. He noted that the $48 million building includes three main halls downstairs: the Gore Recital Hall with 200 seats, the Thompson Theatre with 450 seats and the Puglisi Orchestra Hall with room for the 300-member Delaware Marching Band to practice indoors. Upstairs, the 32 practice rooms have already proved to be popular with the music students, he said. Other completed projects include a $5.4 million renovation and extension to 461 Wyoming Rd., the former AstroPower building; new air conditioning units for the Delaware Field House; the rebuilding of Tubby Raymond Field; $1 million in renovations to Smith Hall; improvements to the Human Performance Laboratory; and new windows in Lane Hall. Roselle said that several projects are still in progress including the $27 million renovation of the north and west wings of Brown Laboratory and the infill of the Brown lab courtyard. Also, a $1.3 million multimedia center is being created in Morris Library. Future projects will include a new building for the offices of admissions, the registrar and financial aid at the corner of South College and Winslow Road. Also being planned are a $40 million undergraduate science center facing Colburn Laboratory at the corner of Lovett and Academy streets, a financial technology center to be located in the Lerner College of Business and Economics and a new parking deck behind Pearson Hall. Memorial tributes Memorial tributes for four faculty members were presented at the semiannual General Faculty Meeting and the text of the tributes is available online. Bob Hampel, professor of education, presented the tribute to Sylvia Farnham-Diggory, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies; William W. Saylor, professor of animal and food sciences, presented a tribute to Paul E. Meckley, professor of animal science and director of laboratory animal care for the University; T.W. Fraser Russell, Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering, presented the tribute to Arthur B. Metzner, H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering; and Raymond Wolters, Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History, presented the tribute to John A. Munroe, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of History. Article by Cornelia Weil |
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