Over the course of the Campaign for Boston University, the landscape of our campuses has morphed, from new buildings, renovations, and sustainability improvements to gender-neutral accommodations, bike lanes, and streetscape beautifications. That ongoing transformation showed no signs of slowing down in FY2019.
- The Dahod Family Alumni Center opened in the restored BU Castle on Bay State Road. The center includes gathering places for alumni and new Alumni Association offices. More than 800 donors supported the restoration project, including BU Trustee Shamim Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, MED’87) and her husband, Ashraf Dahod, who made a $2 million gift. In the Castle’s lower level is the newly renovated Fuller’s BU Pub, named to recognize a lead gift from Ed (Questrom’68) and Michela Fuller.
- WBUR CitySpace at the Lavine Broadcast Center, located on the ground floor of 890 Commonwealth Ave, was completed last year. The state-of-the-art, multimedia, multipurpose convening and performance space and broadcast studio was made possible thanks to Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine’s $5 million gift—the largest in WBUR’s 69-year history.
- Building continues at 10 Lenox Street and surrounding grounds in preparation for the relocation and expansion of the BU Children’s Center, a daycare facility serving children of BU faculty, staff, and graduate students.
- A makeover at the College of Fine Arts building got underway to restore the façade and original arched street-level windows at 855 Commonwealth Avenue, renovate select spaces on the 1st floor including the Stone Gallery and movement studio, and create a new student lounge.
- Three geothermal test wells were drilled in the parking lot and alleyway adjacent to Granby Street, which confirmed the feasibility of using geothermal heating and cooling for the new Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
- The Medical Campus hosted a variety of construction and renovation projects, most notably the continued renovation and expansion of the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The 48,000-square-foot addition and 63,000-square-foot renovation will house new patient treatment spaces, the Simulation Learning Center, a 140-seat auditorium, as well as a new student lounge and study areas. Speaking of student spaces, the School of Public Health also upgraded and refurbished its student lounges.
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