Fall 2007
Building Boom
This summer, UNLV completed the new Student Union, as well as the four-story Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Next up are some much needed academic spaces.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING BUILDING
Size: 205,779 gross square feet
Location: Main campus, west of the Cottage
Grove parking garage
Funding: $113 million
Completion date: mid-2008
The building's office, classroom, and lab spaces were designed for interdisciplinary
research projects. It is being built to achieve a Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED) silver rating. The stone tile on the building
comes from a local quarry.
Water from the labs will be purified using reverse osmosis for reuse in
the toilets and urinals. Its advanced environmental systems will also reduce
the indoor air contaminants.
GREENSPUN HALL
Size: 121,000 gross square feet
Location: Main campus, southeast of the Student
Union
Funding: $93.7 million, including $37 million
donated by the Greenspun family
Completion date: June 2008
This facility will bring together almost all the College of Urban Affairs
units into one complex. It is designed with sustainability features and
includes a distinctive courtyard shaded by a solar power array, which will
provide more than 15 percent of the total annual energy for the building.
The project's design is also in keeping with the streetscape planned for
Midtown UNLV, a redevelopment project along Maryland Parkway.
STUDENT SERVICES COMPLEX ADDITION
Size: 15,960 gross square feet
Location: Main campus
Funding: $6.5 million
Completion date: May 2008
This addition will give the campus more space to serve UNLV's 28,000 students,
bringing many of the student business offices into one facility. The new
space will house a much larger public counter as well as the registrar
and admissions offices, which are currently crammed in UNLV's oldest building,
Frazier Hall.
ADVANCED DENTAL EDUCATION
Size: 44,000 gross square feet
Location: Shadow Lane campus
Funding: $16.4 million
Completion date: This fall
This facility will expand the opportunities for patient care at the School
of Dental Medicine's Shadow Lane campus, with expanded space for the specialties
of orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, endodontics, periodontics, and oral
and maxillofacial surgery. Last fiscal year, the school's clinics provided
62,333 oral-health services to residents, many of whom would not ordinarily
be able to afford routine dental care.
BY THE NUMBERS
The Bookstore
6,500
Number of textbook titles ordered by the bookstore each semester.
$340.55
Price of the materials package for NURS 307, Health Assessment of Diverse Populations. It is the most expensive item in the bookstore and is kept behind the information desk. Used copies run a relatively thrifty $255.40.
$900K
Annual amount paid by the bookstore in cash to buy back used textbooks.
18
Varieties of decals stocked, including "I ♥ UNLV."
Source: UNLV Bookstore