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Buckley Center

Buckley Center at 50: University Museum

The Dundon-Berchtold academic building is on schedule and even hosting tours. Looking back 50 years, Buckley Center was new to campus then. Students and faculty moving in for spring semester of 1969. A new academic building with all of the modern furnishings. Visit the Museum and Archives blog for an anniversary post about Buckley Center with photos and fun facts.

As a complement to the blog post there is a picture display of Buckley Center in the first floor display case of Buckley Center across from the Studies Abroad office.

For more information, contact Carolyn Connolly, museum coordinator, at x8038 or piatz@up.edu.

Summer Projects On The Way

hUniversity operations will be busy over the summer implementing plans for four major upgrade projects on campus. Various areas of campus will be impacted while these upgrades are underway.

  • Pilot House Remodel: April 24 will be the last day of service for the Cove as it closes for the summer and renovations begin. The Pilot House will be remodeled to provide space for students to hold events and socialize and will open again in the fall. During finals week Bon Appetit will provide outdoor food options in the Pilot House plaza between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. All food will be served to go. The bookstore will remain open during this time.
  • Villa Maria: Parts of Villa Maria will be remodeled. Army ROTC will relocate to the first floor of Howard Hall.
  • Buckley Center: All four floors of Buckley Center will undergo remodeling, expanding office and educational space.
  • Steam line: Major work for the steam line will occur during the summer and will affect Shipstad, Kenna and Christie.

For more information contact university operations at 7540 or go to http://www.up.edu/uo/.