Molloy College has broken ground for $28.6-million campus center that will be the Roman Catholic institution's first new building since 1992. Designed by Butler Rogers Baskett Architects, the 57,000-square-foot structure will have a 550-seat theater, an art gallery, rehearsal and office space for the music department, a cafe, a bookstore, offices for student organizations, and lounge and study space. It is due to open in 2011.

Butler Rogers Baskett Architects has designed a new campus center for Molloy College. (Butler Rogers Baskett Architects image)

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Syracuse University has opened its first entirely new residence hall in over 40 years, a nine-story, $50-million facility designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects. The 140,000-square-foot building building offers single and double rooms with a total of 250 beds, as well as 2,000 square feet of academic space. Still under construction are a 500-seat dining hall and a 10,600-square-foot recreation facility. The building is named for Ernie Davis, a member of the Class of 1962 who became the first black athlete to win college football's Heisman Trophy. Months later he was...

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Texas A&M University at College Station says says its McFerrin Athletic Center—a pair of tentlike indoor practice facilities for football and track—is ready for action now that questions about its structural integrity and safety have been answered.

McFerrin is similar to a practice facility used by the Dallas Cowboys that collapsed earlier this year, injuring a dozen people (one of whom was paralyzed). Soon after that collapse, the university hired an engineering firm to examine its facility. The Associated Press acquired documents prepared by the engineering firm, which said that the McFerrin Athletic Center had not been built to withstand high winds, as required by local building codes. A vice president at the firm, Hanyes...

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Yale U. has completed a two-year, $25-million renovation of Eero Saarinen's Ingalls Rink. (Michael Marsland, Yale U.)

New Haven, Conn. — Now that Yale has completed a two-year renovation of Eero Saarinen's 1958 Ingalls Rink, one of Modernism's most exuberant artifacts, the university is busy with a much bigger job—renovating its two 1962 Saarinen residential colleges, Morse and Stiles. Unlike the ice rink, which had to be kept open for the hockey season, Morse and Stiles are closing for 15 months each. Work is under way at Morse, with its students housed in an overflow facility that Yale built when it began renovating its residential colleges. Stiles will follow next year.

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Work on the University of Toledo's Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation is well underway, the groundbreaking having taken place in September. Programs on the campus, a former overflow campus for the university, will focus on developing and marketing alternative-energy technologies, like wind, biofuel, and solar. Some of those technologies will help to power the campus, which is shooting for a carbon-neutral footprint.

A 100-foot-tall, 80-kilowatt wind turbine has already been erected on the site. More than 1.2 megawatts' worth of solar panels, some of them developed by a company that got its start at...

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