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   from the issue of September 9, 2004

     
 
Looking to the Future: New People, New Facilities - Construction brightens landscape and buildings

Construction in 2004 brought new living and dining options for UNL students, new parking options and refurbished offices and recreational areas for all on campus. Here's a look at UNL's newest and redone facilities:

 
The rooms at Husker Courtyards, UNL's newest residence hall, feature kitchens, a separate living space and a bathroom for every...
 The rooms at Husker Courtyards, UNL's newest residence hall, feature kitchens, a separate living space and a bathroom for every two residents.

• Husker Courtyards, UNL's apartment-style living complex for upper-class students at 17th and Vine streets, opened in fall 2004. The building offers furnished, four-bedroom and two-bedroom units with full kitchens and a bathroom for every two students. The units also feature cable TV, local phone service, high-speed Internet access and views of the courtyards. A second apartment-style residence hall, Husker Village, is under construction at 16th and Y streets and will open in August 2005.

In addition, Harper Hall on the north edge of campus received a face lift over the summer and now features new lobbies, lounges and study rooms, a high-tech security system, new bathroom and private shower areas, and laundry rooms on each floor. Rooms received all new furnishings, windows and heating and air conditioning systems. Also, the Selleck Dining Hall will open soon and feature new market-style dining areas so students can order freshly made pizzas and other options. Students are also able to dine as many times as wanted throughout the day.

• The new garage at 14th Street and Avery Avenue opened this fall, offering 842 stalls and the ability to expand the garage to eventually accommodate up to 2,500 stalls.

• Work got under way in force on the Antelope Valley project, the biggest infrastructure project in Lincoln's history. The project will reroute the Antelope Creek channel and remove a portion of the east edge of City Campus from the flood plain. It also will reroute traffic and create a new multi-lane thru-way, shifting traffic off 16th and 17th streets. Last winter and spring, construction took place on 16th and 17th streets north of Vine Street, on areas around State Fair Park, and on Vine Street from campus through 27th Street.

Remodeling at Avery Hall is complete, but some of the original brick is prominently displayed.
 
Remodeling at Avery Hall is complete, but some of the original brick is prominently displayed.

 

• Construction continues on the Tom and Nancy Osborne Athletic Complex and expansion on the north side of Memorial Stadium, which caused the demolition of Schulte Field House and the Baumann Building and has permanently closed Avery Avenue.

• Remodeling is done at Avery Hall, now home to the mathematics and computer science departments and the City Campus portion of the statistics department. It served for decades as the site of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the departments of chemical engineering and geography.

• The UNL Police Department has moved into its new headquarters on the bottom level of the 17th and R Parking Garage.

• Remodeling continues at the Hardin Center at 33rd and Holdrege streets, which will serve as home for the School of Natural Resources, and the Carpenter Building, 1800 N. 33rd St., home of Nebraska Educational Telecommunications.

• Many outdoor recreation areas have been refurbished and expanded. Fleming Fields Recreational Sports Park at 32nd Street and Leighton Avenue features four softball diamonds, restrooms and concession and parking areas that opened in March, and two grass multipurpose fields to be available next spring. In addition, improvements at the 17th and Vine streets recreation area include refurbishing of its eight tennis courts, two new basketball courts and two sand volleyball courts that will be completed this semester.


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NEWS HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 9

Year in Review 2003-2004
Looking to the Future: New People, New Facilities - Construction brightens landscape and buildings
Research and Discovery - Biological center studies vaccines for botulinum, Valley Fever
Service to Our State - UNL unites to help storm victims
Student Successes - 12 earn the nation's biggest academic honors
Teaching Faculty & Program Successes - Grant funds Fosse study, leads to D.C.
Teaching, Faculty & Program Successes - New college focuses on families, education
The University from a National View - UNL
100 years of Extension
2 honored for research, creativity
Academy praises film
Architecture chapter is best in the country
Broadcasting senior claims 2nd forensics title
Center assists food companies for 20 years
Company helps track mad cow disease
Conference tackles water, law conflicts
Duo looks into social impacts of infertility
Feedlot has room to grow
Future lawyers win national contest
Graduate earns 1st degree in culinology
Hanson gains USDA teaching award
Helping parents prepare for school
J.D. Edwards students create cattle-tracking software
Nebraska Lectures return
Now on NET: HDTV
NU gains a new president, other leaders for new year
Program creates tests to fight food allergens
Ritchie's work earns NU honors
Savory joins Academy
Scientists' beef research earns international prize
Statistics expands
Tularemia examined as a bioterror threat
UNL continues to climb various U.S. rankings
UNL is a home for all things Lewis and Clark
Work studies our unique Sandhills
Zeng's discoveries lead to fellowship

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