Campus Notes

Regents give green light for campus projects

The University Board of Regents on Thursday and Friday approved new campus facility improvement projects, including renovations of the C. C. Little Science Building and the Central Campus Recreation Building.

The renovations to C.C. Little and the Pharmacy building include enhancing the pharmaceutical program to include fourth-year hospital and pharmacy placement for students, and upgrading existing laboratories. The project is estimated to cost $2.4 million and be completed by next fall.

The CCRB will expand to hold more research programs and labs for the School of Kinesiology. The project is estimated to cost $850,000, and is scheduled for completion by Ann Arbor Architects Collaborative in spring 2001.

Other projects involve the development of the Life Science Institute, to be located along Washtenaw Avenue across from Palmer Field.

Construction projects approved include the partial demolition of the North University Building, the construction of the Science Instruction Center Building which will be used for science research and eventually provide program space for the department of theater and drama, and the construction of the Palmer Drive Commons Building.

Construction contracts were awarded for the building of the Life Sciences Institute, and design documents are being prepared for the Wall Street Research Laboratory, a medical school research lab.

Decisions on land use to be focus of conference

The University Office of the Vice President for Government Relations will sponsor a conference to promote the significance of decisions regarding land use on Oct. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The conference will be held at the Michigan Union and features practitioners discussing urban and suburban developments, environmental factors in building and legal experts who will review local ordinances and environmental laws.

Douglas Kelbaugh, dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, is set to deliver the luncheon address titled "Repairing the American Metropolis."

Registration costs $25, including lunch, and the conference is open to the public.

For additional information, contact Elizabeth McNamara at emcnama@umich.edu.

Fair to provide students service opportunities

The School of Public Health will sponsor the Second Annual Service-Learning Fair on Oct. 2 at 3 p.m. at the school located at 109 Observatory St.

The fair will give students and faculty the opportunity to meet with 40 community-based organizations from the state in order to arrange experiential learning and community service options for the classroom and personal experience.

University students involved with health professions are welcome to attend the fair featuring keynote speaker University alum Chris Allen, president and chief executive of Family Road Care centers.

The fair will follow Allen's speech in the Henry Vaughn Building from 3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on the third floor.

For more information, visit http://www.sph.umich.edu/cbph/comday2.html.

- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Lisa Hoffman.

Originally on page 3A in the 9-25-2000 issue of the Daily.