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Campus Growth
Sparked by private giving, the UNMC campus has seen unprecedented growth the past 10 years. This extraordinary period of expansion and renewal includes the following projects that are either completed, in progress or on the drawing board. These projects reflect the vision of UNMC’s Facilities Development Plan, which was approved by the University of Nebraska Regents in 2006, to facilitate research growth, expand patient care and renew and enhance education space.
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Funding Source: Funding is largely through private support, with the late Charles Durham providing the lead gift. In addition, the state of Nebraska has committed $12 million in non-state general fund resources. The state support is intended primarily to construct bioterrorism preparedness laboratories and the State Public Health Lab within the tower. Other support is expected from federal monies.
Cost: $76.4 million
Location: Located only a few yards south of the Durham Research Center on the northwest corner of Durham Research Plaza (formerly 45th Street) and Emile Street. The two research towers will be connected with an interaction and conference area.
Building Details: The 10-level facility will be nearly identical to the Durham Research Center, which opened in 2003. It will contain 252,179 gross square feet with 98 state-of-the-art laboratories, as well as office space for investigators and laboratory support space. UNMC commissioned a sculpture of Durham by Omaha artist John Lajba, which will be located near the entrances of the two research towers.
Completion: May 2009
Serving Students: The tower will provide additional laboratory space in which graduate students will work and study.
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Funding Source: Funding is through private support, with the late Chuck Durham providing the largest donation. Other principal benefactors are The Peter Kiewit Foundation, Suzanne and Walter Scott Jr., Ruth and Bill Scott, Mary and Richard Holland, Stanley M. Truhlsen, M.D., Gail Michael Yanney and Gail Walling Yanney, M.D., Criss Memorial Foundation
Cost: $77 million – all from private funds, except $2.5 million in federal funds. No state tax dollars are being used in the construction. State funding will be requested for operating and maintenance expenses.
Location: UNMC campus, 45th Street between Dewey Avenue and Emile Street (on the former site of the University Geriatric Center).
Building Details: The 289,000 square feet, 10 level building features 116 research laboratories and associated support services, a 319-seat auditorium; three classrooms; 12 conference/seminar rooms and public spaces. The research building is a cast-in-place concrete facility, as opposed to a steel building. Cast-in-place buildings are quieter and also designed to reduce traffic and other vibration to levels tolerable for research.
Completion: November 2003
Serving Students: Creates a research mall – the Durham Research Plaza on the west end of the UNMC campus – and enables UNMC graduate and doctorate students to study and work in a technologically enhanced research environment. The building has helped UNMC grow its research program in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences, transplantation biology, genetics and eye research.
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Funding Source: Funding is through private support, with Ruth and Bill Scott making the largest donation. Other principal benefactors are The Nebraska Medical Center, Richard D. Holland, Dorothy and Stanley M. Truhlsen, M.D., The Lozier Foundation, UNMC Physicians, Dr. C.C. & Mabel L. Criss Memeorial Foundation, College of Medicine Alumni Association and Karen and Jim Linder, M.D.
Cost: $52.7 million (funded entirely by private donations)
Location: Northeast corner of the intersection of 42nd Street and Emile Street.
Building Details: The 134,183 square-foot, four level building features clinical skills laboratories that resemble hospital and exam rooms, small and large amphitheaters with theater-sized screens, small group classrooms, interactive study rooms, and private study spaces. A large student commons area, snack shop and bookstore are part of the center. The building also features the campus events center which will provide a setting for campus, alumni and community events. The College of Medicine offices are located on the 4th floor.
Completion: June 2008
Serving Students: This state-of-the-art health science education center enhanced the educational experience for all UNMC students. The building has smart classrooms featuring interactive technology; a clinical skills center where students can learn communications skills and practice clinical decision-making in a safe, simulated environment; teaching laboratories equipped with virtual microscopy; small group instruction rooms that support problem-based learning; small and large amphitheaters; a large interactive space featuring student lounges, study areas and other student-oriented amenities; a campus events center which will provide a setting for campus, alumni and community events and create an environment for the lifelong learning; and a beautifully landscaped green space around the facility where student and campus activities can take place.
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Funding Source: Private funds raised in association with the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.
Cost: Approx. $2.5 million
Location: Wittson Hall
Project Details: Provides 50 percent more space to accommodate larger class size and smaller groups (four) of students per cadaver table. Connected to the lab is an expanded Holyoke-Latta Self-Directed Learning Center and a separate lab for surgery residents to practice their skills before operating on patients.
Completion: Summer 2008
Serving Students: Expands faculty teaching and student learning capabilities by incorporating the latest digital technology. Images can be projected onto 50-inch wide screens located near each dissecting table and a teaching gallery allows demonstrations to be videotaped and archived for student review. New locker rooms provide sufficient space for both men and women.
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Funding Source: LB605 (2006), which provides matching state funds to upgrade buildings on all four campuses of the University of Nebraska system and the state colleges.
Cost: $8.9 million
Location: Northwest corner of the intersection of 42nd Street and Emile Street.
Project Details: Renovation of about 46,000 square feet of interior space provides an additional 25,000 net square feet of updated space. Brings together – for the first time ever in one location – the 10 educational programs that comprise the School of Allied Health Professions on Levels 3 through 6. The Department of Anesthesiology administrative and faculty offices remains on Level 2 and the Counseling and Student Development Center moves from the Student Life Center to Level 6.
Background: Built in 1918, Bennett Hall has seven levels and contains 64,494 gross square feet of space. An addition was made to the building in 1947 with a major renovation in 1962.
Completion: August 2008
Serving Students: Fosters sense of community among allied health faculty, staff and students; provides a 2,000-plus square foot classroom and laboratory for physical therapy and physician assistant students on Level 4; seats 42 students in remodeled amphitheater equipped for distance education; enhances student interaction and compliments the inter-professional core courses being developed.
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Funding Source: The facility will be jointly funded by UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center.
Cost: Estimated at $16.5 million
Location: Southwest corner of 42nd & Emile Street in a building that formerly housed the University Laundry.
Project Details: Purpose is to develop treatments for patients with cancer, diabetes and liver failure along with the processing of cells, tissues and preparing solid organs for transplant. It is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-regulated facility.
Completion: March 2009
Serving Students: Provides new opportunities for translational research that strengthens patient care and enhances learning.
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Funding Source: Major gift by Omaha natives Paul and Lori Hogan, co-founders of Home Instead Senior Care, the largest provider of non-medical home care to seniors in the world.
Cost: Nearly $10.2 million (funded entirely with private donations).
Location: The new center will be built at the intersection of Leavenworth Street and 38th Avenue.
Building Details: The three-level, 25,300 square-foot center will reunite the sections of geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry, expand research and patient care, improve the education infrastrcture and provide outreach facilities to enhance successful aging. A Community Education and Outreach Center - a key part of the project - will provide comprehensive services to promote fitness, good nutrition, health education, independent living and socialization.
Completion: Spring 2010
Serving Students: Fifty percent of the health care provided by UNMC students in 2020 will be for people age 65 and older, which makes it important to expose health professions students to this population.
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Funding Source: Private donations from Ruth and Bill Scott of Omaha
Cost: $16.5 million
Location: South of Dewey Avenue on the east side of 40th Street in what is presently a UNMC parking lot. The building will be flanked by the UNMC Eye Clinic on the north and the UNMC Student Life Center on the south.
Building Details: The 52,500-square-foot, three-level facility will provide a home for the newly established College of Public Health.
Completion: April 2010
Serving Students: The college delivers high quality education, research, and public service emphasizing the following areas: biosecurity/bio-preparedness; biostatistics; environmental, agricultural, and occupational health sciences; epidemiology; ethics and humanities in health; health disparities; health policy analysis; health services administration; health services research; health promotion/disease prevention; rural health; and toxicology.
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Funding Source: Private donations from Ruth and Bill Scott of Omaha
Cost: $14 million
Location: The building addition will be a separate structure near the east end of the existing building at 42nd Street and Dewey Avenue and will be connected to the main building by a short grade level link.
Building Details: A 42,550 square-foot, multi-story structure for classrooms, labs, faculty offices and nursing research.
Completion: Spring 2010
Serving Students: New space will be dedicated to classrooms, clinical skills labs and seminar rooms – all designed to accommodate advanced teaching technology. Plans also call for a student lounge, student computing, student and faculty interaction areas, faculty offices and nursing research space.
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Funding Source: LB605
Cost: $8.5 million
Location: 40th and Holdrege streets in Lincoln
Building Details: The original overhanging entrance to the college will be enclosed to make room for a handicapped accessible elevator (which will improve patient access to the clinics) and additional offices. Heating and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical systems will be upgraded and patient reception and waiting areas improved. Areas of the building that have not been substantially altered since the structure was opened in 1967 also will be renovated, including teaching clinics and class laboratories.
Completion: 2010
Serving Students: Modern and more efficient clinics, laboratories and support areas. Patient treatment, a large focus of clinical dental education, will be improved to benefit patients, the students who provide care and the faculty who teach in those areas.
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Donors: Regional fundraising campaign is underway.
Cost: $12.9 million
Location: Located on the Northeast Community College campus in Norfolk, Neb.
Building Details: The 35,000-square-foot facility will house Northeast Community College’s basic nurse aide, licensed practical nursing and associate degree nursing programs, and UNMC’s bachelor of science in nursing, master of science in nursing and doctoral degree programs. UNMC currently offers nursing programs in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney and Scottbluff.
Completion: Tentatively set to open in 2010
Serving Students: When combined with Northeast Community College nursing programs, six levels of nursing education will be available, from certified nursing assistant to the Ph.D. in nursing. The college also will help address a shortage of nurses in northeast Nebraska.
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Cost: Estimated $17.5 million
Location: The facility will sit just north of the UNMC College of Dentistry at 40th & Holdrege streets and east of the Maxwell Arboretum on the east campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Building Details: The multi-story structure will contain 29,136 net square feet -- which is about 80 percent more space than the current Lincoln facility has. It will feature classrooms and class labs with advanced teaching technology, student and faculty interaction areas, faculty offices and space for nursing research programs.
Completion: Estimated in February 2012
Serving Students: The new facility will help the college prepare more nurses with bachelor's degrees, meet increasing student demand and reduce the serious nursing shortage in Nebraska. It also will help attract and prepare more nurses with master's and doctoral degrees in specialty areas, as well as for leadership and faculty positions.