Enhancing Our Learning Environment
Encouraging a vibrant campus community—one that fosters collaboration and engagement—requires us to think not only about people and programs, but also about the libraries, labs, classrooms, and studios where their dynamic interactions take place. We are thinking about form and function-and about sustainability-as we plan for new construction and for renovating or retrofitting existing facilities.
Gifts that fund facilities will allow us to create dramatic new spaces that encourage interaction and collaboration among faculty and students. We will create physical links between the Health Sciences and Main Campus areas by creating a research corridor anchored by the new Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) complex. We will complete renovations and convert the remaining University—owned Fort Douglas buildings for academic use. We will build a new Student Life Center. New and more practical pedestrian, bike, and shuttle corridors will allow faculty and students to move easily between their research and study spaces.
We will also create two new gateways to campus, adjacent to existing TRAX stations-one for recreational and one for retail destinations-new assets that will benefit the entire campus community. We will continue to expand and seismically upgrade buildings within the Health Sciences complex. We will be water-wise. And we will do all this while maintaining the feel of a beautiful urban research university and highlighting the grandeur of our spectacular natural setting.
Gifts that support construction projects are about more than bricks and mortar. When we break ground, and when we build and then dedicate new spaces, we transform the lives of our faculty, students, and staff.
