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Hawthorn Building
Hawthorn, the new classroom and faculty office building, opened at the beginning of the 2005 spring semester. The building also is the new home for computer labs that were previously located in the Computer Learning and Resource Center.
Hawthorn Building houses 56 faculty offices and 24 classrooms, including a music rehearsal room and three computer classrooms. Classrooms range from theater-style rooms with fixed seating to smaller rooms with seminar-style seating that can be reconfigured. All classrooms are technology-enabled with video projectors and wiring for computer presentations.
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Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts
The Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts expansion project will further enhance Penn State Altoona’s ability to provide instruction in state-of-the-art facilities and offer community access to cultural programming that is of the highest caliber. Plans for the expansion feature a new dance studio, theatrical studio, enlargement of the current theatre space and a new Performing Arts and Communications Suite that will create space for technical and production facilities and faculty offices.
Electrical Distribution Project
The high voltage electrical distribution project will replace an aging and limited power distribution system with a system that will accommodate future expansion of the campus’s electrical needs, as necessitated by new and renovated facilities, for example. The project cost is estimated at approximately $1.6 million.
Eiche Library
A $1.3 million renovation of Eiche Library and Computer Learning Resource Center began last spring. The project will allow the library to expand its collection from 80,000 volumes to 130,000 over the next ten years.
The renovated space will accommodate the expansion of library services and provide quality seminar and study areas for students and all other patrons of the facility, recapturing the space that has been converted to academic uses during Penn State Altoona’s recent growth period.
The renovation will provide needed space for service areas and the collections, as well as group study, scholars’ workstations, and technology classrooms for library instruction.
The Adam and Mary Christodoulos Gazebo
Helen Christodoulos, a long-time alumni volunteer and member of the Penn State Altoona Alumni Society Board of Directors, provided funds to help build a gazebo located near the Ivyside Drive entrance to the campus. The gazebo is dedicated as a memorial to Helen’s parents, Adam and Mary Christodoulos. Helen retired after teaching for twenty-eight years in the Altoona Area School District. A former Penn State Altoona student, she earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Education from the University.
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