To accommodate UCI students, staff and faculty, new buildings have been constructed and others renovated. The impact of the Student Center (1990) has been remarkable and will be even greater in the future through a major construction project currently under way that will create a larger, mostly new Student Center combined with an expanded Cross-Cultural Center. Similarly, Social Science Plaza (1996) has made a large positive difference, as has the Humanities Instructional Building (1997). A suite of buildings – Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility (1997), Sprague Hall (2002) and Hewitt Hall (2003) – provide valuable space for health sciences research. Natural Sciences I (2002) and Croul Hall (2003) also serve the sciences, and Natural Sciences II opened fall 2005. The Claire Trevor School of the Arts has undergone a nearly complete upgrading, including the addition of the Studio Buildings (Arts, Culture and Technology and Performance Studios in 2002), the Music and Media Building (1999), and the Beall Center for Art and Technology (2000). Winifred Smith Hall, UCI’s concert hall, was renovated and modernized in 1999, as was the Claire Trevor Theatre in 2002. In fall 2005, the Arts Plaza was dedicated.

About 310,000 square feet of new space has opened just since 2000. Also, remodeling and renovating of UCI classrooms are well underway through the General Assignment Classroom Renovation plan, under which 95 of 122 classrooms will be converted to “SMART” classrooms. Welcome renovations also have been done in Humanities Hall. The quality of these new and refurbished facilities is a source of pride, and they make UCI a more productive and pleasant place to study, work and assemble.

A number of further improvements are under way including the construction of Bren Hall in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. And last but certainly not least, of enormous significance to our School of Medicine and Southern California in general is the new UCI hospital, a $372 million project for which construction recently began at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. The new medical center facility is expected to be completed in 2009.

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