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• The new Discovery Learning Center opened in fall 2002, allowing engineering students at all levels to participate in research on the latest challenges facing society. The $16.5 million, 45,000-square-foot research and learning laboratory houses 11 individual laboratories and has videoconferencing, group meeting areas and high-tech infrastructure throughout.
  
  
• The University Memorial Center (UMC), a major focal point for campus activities and also home to restaurants, a copy center, the university book store and many campus organizations,underwent a $27 million expansion and renovation. The project, which was completed in fall 2002, added about 51,000 gross square feet of new space, including a five-story atrium, and included the renovation of more than 100,000 square feet of existing space.
  
  
• The Farrand Dining Center underwent a $7.7 million renovation that includes a food court offering a variety of eating options. Renovation of 18,320 gross square-feet of space was completed in fall 2002.
  
  
• Phase I of the Williams Village housing addition began in June 2002. The $69 million first phase of the project will add an estimated 994 student beds, with 495 scheduled to be available by fall 2003 and 499 in 2004. When completed the entire project will add about 1,900 student beds.
  
  
• Folsom Stadium is undergoing an addition totaling 125,000 gross square feet to add 41 private boxes and 1,960 club seats. The addition, which began in May 2002 and is slated for completion in August 2003, will cost about $41.1 million.
  
  

Nobel laureate Carl Wieman in 2002 used part of his Nobel Prize money to launch a new science education project called the Physics Education Technology Project. Supported by the Kaoli Institute of Oxnard, Calif., the National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder, the project will focus on interactive “virtual” physics experiments created using Java Applets, which allow users to manipulate virtual objects on the computer screen. The computer programs will be available to students worldwide on the Internet.

• The newly renovated Bruce Curtis Building, formerly the Geology Building, was dedicated in April 2002 and houses the museum and field studies graduate program and about 3 million specimens from the CU Museum of Natural History's extensive collection. The $6.2 million, 44,000-square-foot renovation includes five classrooms, three of them "smart" classrooms, several laboratories and collection libraries, a walk-in freezer for specimen decontamination and a casting lab to replicate paleontological and archaeological items.
  
  
• The BP Center for Visualization opened in October 2001. The $12.6 million interdisciplinary research center in the College of Engineering and Applied Science occupies a 7,800-square-foot renovated facility on the east campus. The center offers advanced immersive visualization capability for a variety of business sectors and opportunities for scientists to better understand the natural environment.
  
  
• The School of Journalism and Mass Communication relocated in summer 2000 to the Armory, once the home of the Colorado National Guard and now an example of successful historic preservation. The expanded space provided room for four new editing bays, a new seminar room, redesigned space for the Campus Press, an additional computer lab and offices. The building also houses the school's Scripps Fellows.
  
  
• The Eaton Humanities Building occupies the last reserved site on the historic Norlin Quadrangle. Its four levels and 59,191 gross square feet have 1,168 new classroom seats in 16 "smart" classrooms and three "smart" lecture halls. It is home to four humanities departments. Total project cost was approximately $10.8 million, including $1.2 million in private funds. The building opened for classes in January 2000.
  
  
• Three new building projects are in the planning stage. They are a new law school, business school addition and renovation, and a building to house ATLAS, the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society.