Food Sciences and bass. Raymond Walters will give a tribute to Dr. John one row of the Department of History. And I want also to mention that there will be a memorial service for Dr. Monroe on October fifth, cane at 3pm. That's a Sunday afternoon in in the Center for the Arts. So let's begin with Bob, help protect equal members of the senate. It's a privilege to be able to give this tribute to my colleague, co-author, mentor, and close friend, Sylvia foreign degree, who died on May 30th, 2005 at her home in Nederland, Colorado. Varname, if you'd like to be called, was the first female Chaired Professor appointed at the University of Delaware in 1976. For 16 years, she taught educational psychology in the College of Education. >> And during that time, she founded and directed the Academic Services Assistance Program, which was one of the first university centers to help disabled learning, disabled college students. >> Born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1927. Foreigner who earned her BA at the University of Chicago in 1946 after two years, thanks to Robert Hutchins credit by examination experiments. And she earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania after three years, thanks to having two children to support in-between. >> She was an actress in New York City for seven years, culminating in a nationwide tour as Buddha Hogan's under study. >> After raising her son, she joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the first woman to earn tenure in the Department of Psychology. >> There. >> Barnum was well known as a pioneer in the field of cognitive psychology, which was in its infancy in the 19 sixties when her work first appeared, she published information processing and children learning disabilities, schooling, cognitive processes in education, and several dozen articles, book chapters and monographs. During her retirement, she was working on two novels based on her amateur archaeological digs in Scotland. >> As our colleague, she was an inspiring model of how the worlds of theory and practice could be merge. >> Years before the college known as chap came about for new embodied spirit. >> She knew that it was not an either-or choice between theory and practice. >> She knew that her work here could enrich children's lives up there, and it did. >> Arthur Messner was the h fetch, a Brown professor emeritus of chemical engineering. >> You died suddenly on May fourth of attending a meeting in Washington DC. >> With his passing, it's appropriate to reflect on his contributions as a teacher, researcher, and inspirational leader. >> Both art and I were born in Saskatchewan and educated in Alberta about our past and not cross until I came to the university in the early sixties. >> Art was born in gravel Berg's, the sketch one. >> Gravel Berg is a small town about 50 miles south and west of moose job, one of Saskatchewan's major cities and producer of a number of significant people. I don't giggling has not approach. >> He spent most of the years leading up to his degree in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta in the province of following graduation from the university in 1944 to 1948, he earned his doctor of science at MIT in 1951 under the direction of WK Lewis, often known as Doc Art, had a picture of Lewis in his office and the scowl on dog's face give irony to his other nicknamed level. >> Chemical engineering is serious work. Aren't spent two years at Colgate Palmolive before coming to Delaware in 1953 with his edition, the department had six members, including Alan Coburn and rubber pig from the group were very active in teaching, offering textbooks in research. >> Although with the clear goal of increasing the stature that apartment or its progress was rapid. >> This environment, he became full professor in 1961 and The each Fletcher Brown professor in 1962. He was department chairman from 1970 to 1978. And during this period, the Department added six faculty, published five books, established the Center for catalytic Science and Technology. And at several prominent foreign visitors, he enjoyed an act of consulting practice in some of his research stemmed from these efforts. Examples of such research became textbook material or the auto correlation for power consumption, the mixing of non Newtonian fluids he described his research interests is processing of composite materials, polymer processing, fiber spinning in fluid mechanics. But in fact, his work was much broader than this. >> His name is associated with the rheology of non-Newtonian fluids. >> And this that she was the editor of the Journal of rheology. For these efforts, he was given the Distinguished Service Award by the society rheology 19701997. Arch productivity and research merited awards from the eye CAG, the American Chemical Society, American Society of education, the society rheology. >> He was a fellow in the AIC, AAG, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. >> And his eminence as an educator and researcher was recognized on campus with the award in 1981, the Francis Ellis analog in honor of his 40 years of service and leadership in chemical engineering, we held some Arthur medicine or Symposium in 1993. And the papers from this republished in October 1994, issue of lying you research I not only was a colleague of ours, but a student of his, so I can speak to his PR in class performance. He clearly understood that chemical engineering education was not so much about content, but more about teaching students to have the skills and confidence to be able to solve a wide range of products is classes were interact and students were encouraged to participate in numerous ways, mostly by explaining how they completed the many province ESI. It was very dangerous to come to class. >> Unprepared aren't, wanted the students to gain confidence so they could get the knowledge needed to solve a specific problem on their own. And this approach, I made the students much more attentive of the textbook and more confident their engineering skills. >> His approach to graduate fluid mechanics also was unique in many place considerable emphasis on one's ability to critical exam papers in the literature and develop a different approach to specific issues if the papers from lacking. I took one of arts course, undergraduate fluid mechanics, and greatly appreciated his teaching, which is very effective both in and out of class. And the late ninth, 990s, that transfer of oil from crude obey field was severely reduced because the pipeline couldn't carry the amount of oil that was needed and aren't served as a consultant to review their operations. And he gathered a group of experts. You ultimately need some strategic reductions in number of pumping stage and made use of drag reduction insights so that we can get more oil into this country. >> But more importantly, he, at least in my view, he brought accumulated knowledge to the undergraduates as a design problem of how to improve the pipeline. >> And so a number of students, a number of years of students had to tackle this problem is specified location of pumping stations from food obeyed Valdez. >> And that's a lot different than working on a pilot pipeline in the unit operations laboratory. >> And I think they got great deal out of it or it had great success as a mentor, a warm colleague, and a friend. Most obvious role for a mentor is as a research adviser. He directed 48 bachelor's thesis, 46 masters, and 30 each PhDs. At the beginning of the project. The mentoring was one way, but his work progressed. >> Art, encourage, perhaps demanded independent thought and insight. >> He's kept track of all of his students graduated and he was a gifted and conscientious letter writer. And when promotions came, arts congratulatory note, congratulatory notes were incisive and instructive. Any was one of these rare individuals whose handwriting remained readable at myths, or had an illustrious career and his efforts greatly contributes obsessive the department. The beginning of May, he was his usual interesting self and lunchtime con, discussion and then he was gone for strength of personality is very much with Thank you. >> Know. No, thank you. >> Thank you. Dr. Paul Mendeley has to weigh on May 14th, 2006 with his wife and mother at his side is home following courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. All was born in York, Pennsylvania. On, on August second, 1943. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1965. His doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania. Continued his education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received his Master's degree and Doctorate and reproductive physiology. He joined the University of Delaware following his graduate work as an assistant professor with the teaching research appointment in the Department of Animal Science and agricultural biochemistry. Paul taught courses in reproductive physiology, laboratory animal care, small animal surgical techniques, and he was our longtime coordinator for senior seminar students. Loved and respected Paul for his wealth of knowledge in the subject matter is fairness in his wonderful sense of humor. Also served the university as director of Laboratory Animal Care for most of his 27 years here, he carried out these responsibilities with resolve while maintaining an open, insensitive relationship with research and teaching faculty responsible for daily care and use of animals. He was able to balance collegiality with his professional responsibilities. All retired from the university in 2000. Always active in his community, his church, and the Lutheran Campus Ministry for many, many years. He was a devoted family man and greatly enjoyed spending time with his wife, Adrian, his children and grandchildren. >> He particularly loved to retreat with them to their real hope with beach home and file solitude and rest there. >> He enjoyed attending a state auctions and was a collector of carnival glass and veterinary artifacts and memorabilia. >> Paul was beloved by his colleagues and friends for his intellect, his creative thinking, his service to family and friends, and perhaps as much as anything for his sense of humor and wit was a dry humor that often crept up on you. >> I remember the occasion that Paul was recounting his days as a high school, high school football player. >> You recall that in one very important game, he personally was assessed 30 yards and penalty for a single play. >> When out. When asked how that was possible, all replied, Well, the first 15 yards were for clipping, the additional 15 yards were for taking exception to the referees. >> Heritage Hall left us at the early age of 62. >> He's survived by his wife of 40 years, adrian, WHO mentally to children Michelle Gorham and Kevin McCauley, also surviving or his mother, Lawdy, mentally, a brother and sister, and four grandchildren. Thank you. >> John Andrew Monroe died on September sixth, 2006 at age 92. >> Dr. Monroe was one of doll, where's best-known and most respected historians. >> He was born in Wilmington and educated at the University of Delaware, where he received a BA degree, and at the University of Pennsylvania where he received a Ph.D. in 1942. He what he accepted a position as an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware, where he taught until his retirement 40 years later in 1962, he was named the H Rodney Sharp Professor of History. And at various times he also served as assistant dean, as alumni secretary, as chairman of the history department for 17 years, and as president of the Delaware Chapter of the AAUP. A prolific writer and a popular speaker, john Monroe published more than 80 professional articles and many shorter pieces for encyclopedias and magazines. >> Between 19591965, he wrote a regular newspaper column on topics in Delaware history. >> He spoke frequently to fellow scholars and to community groups and also develop two sets of televised lectures on Delaware History. Dr. Monroe was widely recognized as the foremost authority on the history of this state. And for many years he taught most of the students at the university, where students were required to take a course on the history of Delaware. The university honored Dr. Monroe with the Francis Allison Award, the Outstanding Alumnus Award, and a metal of distinction. He also received awards from three governors of Delaware, including the first Governor's Heritage Award, which was given by Governor Ruth and mentor in 2003. >> Dr. Monroe's books included Federalist Delaware, 1775 to 1815, Louis McLain, Federalist and Jacksonian, colonial Delaware. >> The University of Delaware, a history at the age of 90, he published his last book, The Philae, Delaware Aryans and other essays relating to Delaware writing in the Political Science Quarterly in 1955 Morton Borden of Ohio State University hail John's first book, Federalist Delaware, as a bold challenge to Charles a beards then regnant thesis that clear and sharp economic differences separated the mercantile minded Federalists from the Republican agrarian. The opposite was true in Delaware, where Republicans, as the Republicans of Thomas Jefferson were dominant in the bustling city of Wilmington, while Federalists held sway in rural can't and Sussex counties. In the annals of the American Academy, George Kyle of Lehigh University observe that for the task at hand, quote, the author has had to be an economist, sociologist, student of religion historian, and political scientist, Kyle judge Munro. >> Two have been quote, strikingly successful in each of his scholarly rules. >> He had written an excellent analysis of Delaware politics during the years from the beginning of the war of independence until the end of the War of 1812, when rose greatest contribution to scholarship may have been his biography of the prominent 19th century politician and businessman, lewis McLain. Mclain was a congressman, a senator, secretary of the treasury, american ambassador to England and president of two of the nation's largest business enterprises, the morris canal and banking company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In 195152, Dr. Monroe discovered two large caches of family correspondence that we're still in the hands of Maclean's descendants. >> Colorado. >> Writing in the American Historical Review, Charles him, we'll see of Dartmouth College, described the resulting biography, Louis McLain, Federalist and Jacksonian, as, quote, an immensely readable book that adds measurably to our understanding of the Jacksonian period, of the fascinating characters who people did, and of the interwoven events that swept it forward. John Monroe is survived by his wife, Dorothy, his three children, Stephen, Carol, and Michael, their spouses, and seven grandchildren. In the words of University of Delaware President David Rose L, Well, John Monroe was the perfect embodiment of the gentlemen scholar. He was revered as an accomplished historian, a learned professor, a carrying mentor, and a delightful friend. He helped shape the history department here at the university, a department that is now housed in a building that appropriately bears his name. >> Thank you. >> Thank all the presenters. Or we add and observe a moment of silence for departed colloids Thank you very much. When I shuffled my papers, I started to computer. >> Let's see. >> I'm going to tell you several things. First of all, the usual physicalists above what is going on, construction laws on campus. And let me begin with the layered residence hall complex. The buildings in, in red brick buildings are buildings that had been completed. They are a 500 bit dormitory named after George Reid, a 250 bed dormitory named after Thomas McCain, and a third, second 250 bed dormitory named after James Smith. Those were the first three young man. Francis knows what the three young men in France, this Allison's first-class who later on signed the Declaration of Independence. So suddenly we have a whole group students who can name three people who signed the Declaration of Independence. We are an educational institution that the, the towers are there. You see Clayton hall there and you also see pink hater dining hall. The other goes to the in area I'll be talking about later. Here's what it looked like before the residents, how complex it was. Penn cater that students have one error. Referred to them as ** Joe for Howard Johnson's not, not to kinda dormitories for a university to have seen that from security point of view, you open the door and you're in a bedroom. And from us from the sociology port two is no lobbies. So there was not to kind of interchange that goes on in dormitory lobbies, which is so important. That's what they look like. They are attractive buildings, I think is standing on a sort of somewhere over in the direction of the hotel. Taking the picture that's the top left is standing at George Reid Hoffman looking down. And the other one is so standing just after you come over the bridge, what they look like inside are there they're mostly up to two bedroom apartments separated by a shared bathroom. So that's that's what they look like inside. You see some of the spaces, they're very nice. And the students have been very generous in your comments about what it's like to live there. We build a pedestrian bridge called an intermodal transportation facility. That was because we were we were in in the process of getting some federal support for our intermodal transportation facility. And we were successful, and it looks like this. So the first upper-left is, is driving down ring road and coming because see that one of the dorms in the background, and so you're looking to the left, the other is looking to the right, and the bottom left is, is standing at REI street. Dorms are booking across The the new art version of the Grand Canyon. And and the other is when you're almost across the bridge to dorms Center for the Arts. Center for the Arts is open. And I hope that you all take time to visit a, it's a large building, 92 thousand square feet. And part of that project was he was a parking garage. By the way, the dormitories I just showed you, it costs $72 million and and you can do the arithmetic of what it cost to build a dormitory room, a dormitory bit or a 1000 bits and $72 million. So you get $72 thousand. And that is, is a little low actually. Then what to experiences both places. This, this project is the $60 million project divided 48 for the center itself and $12 million for the for the parking deck. >> Nazi artist's rendering of what it was going to look like. >> And it came out to be a pretty accurate in fact. >> And here's the center of the arts. >> This is a before picture with the, with the parking lot and not someone said to me, oneness project got boy Art. Aren't you worried about building a great big building across the street from from the President's house. And I said to replace a big, ugly parking lot. I'm not worried. It was particular I'm unhappy looking parking lot. >> This is what it looks like. >> Now, let's see. The first picture. You're, you're, you're walking down a Orchard Road. And the second picture, you're, you're you're you're driving into the small parking lot to south end of the building AS Yup. Right. The lower-left you're you're probably on the roof of obey me. Do pop looking across at new parking at the new building and you know, it's a parking lot is now Campus. And the other is you're you're standing probably up in the corner of the parking deck looking across it to new building. And you can see also the, the campus was created in that area. People have asked, why did we leave the center of the place of that, that campus area vacant? And one answer is a place to put tents for, for when we have events on campus, we're always looking for places to be able to place tenths. So inside the upper left is a lobby. The, the upper right is orchestra hall named hook VC Orchestra Hall. The the the the building has seats at the end. Those are retractable, and when retracted, it's large enough for the marching band. In practice in it. And it can be seeded in in the the seats when, when they're when they're seats are out. And also for seeding can be added. And we have a stage for the areas. Well, the lower left is is recital hall at 200 see recital hall is named for Genevieve Gore and the late Genevieve Gore. And the the the lower right is a Thompson read recital hall named for a woman who left us or her estate. She used to be an employee of the Alumni Association. And upstairs, upper picture is a waiting area for students waiting to use any of the 32 practice rooms that comprise the upstairs. The lower left picture gives you, gives you a look inside one of the practice rooms, what they look like inside there. They're very interesting. They're, they're open by, by swiping ones Aidid car to schedule the time. That should be enough parking in a practice room. And if you go and you're in the interim when you're supposed to be in there, you swipe it unadorned walks for you when you go in, the door locks. And there's a panic buttons so that if you're in there and you're worried about something that might be going on outside, you press a button and that rings and the police office. And so, so and this, that the area of the seating area at the top is for students who are waiting for their time to get into the practice rooms. For students who are just sitting around talking. >> There's all of the associated dressing rooms and so forth. >> And one of those are shown in the lower right hand for this is Wyoming rode, the former Astro power building and it's now been converted into a useless for some accounting folks and, and Extension people. Inside it looks like this. Let's see, I have a little cheat sheet. This is a project that the cost of $5.4 million to take this building and rehab it and make it suitable for use by extension people and in our accounting folks, lot of spaces for teaching classes. So the way extension people do a Delaware Field House has had has had a pretty major renovation, namely a lot of air conditioning added to to Delaware fill field house. About $4 million worth of Delaware of of air conditioning added to that building. So before and after hook it in the layered campus, we did $1.6 million worth of light replacement. That's what it was. And what it looks like now is so the lights are changed and in all of the paving husband done and it's new but absent potholes. And we built a football office edition for just over a million dollars. It did look like it was the front office area was so was terminated and it was expanded to your left. As you look at that from, from the, the, let's see if you cup from the from the writers one to that Three flag poles just on on that side of the of the American flag, on the flagpole. That was new space that was added to the facility. And it's more than a football office edition. It allows us to allow the other people who've who reside in that facility to to expand and everybody has individual offices, a situation they did not have before. And so it was good project to undertake any interior view of the new Space or something like this. And we're right on the process of bringing the the original space up to the same level, the same standard for for the athletics. Oh, we've renovated for for just about a million dollars in smith hall space for the computer and information system. And that that that that they rescheduled their their their grand opening. Their Dave Saunders wrote to me and said that it been rescheduled from October until November. So so apparently he's not quite it's maybe it's this is not a complete might be a bit of an overstatement. And heading on this sheet probably has something else a lot of publicity about or failure of our football field. And, and this is what it looked like before. That's sort of a kind picture really didn't work quite that good. And what it looks like now is, is that, and we've also replace Windows and in some of the dormitories, that's what they look like before. What they look like now is, is this. And we, we made a new space for the human performance lab, laboratory, Jim Richards group. And what it looked like before was sort of high base base. And we were able to hang a second second floor in the same space, the same footprint, but we put in a second floor and it made it a much more accommodating situation for, for Joe and his colleague. So who are there? >> So what did I just show? >> I just showed you a $145 million worth of construction that is just not being reported as having been as having been completed. I think that's the biggest that we've ever done in, in in we report twice a year and I think this is the most amount of construction that we've ever reported in any one period. But we're in the process of renovating Brown lab, the chemistry building. And it's it's both a renovation and as you will see, some new construction there. It it was not not really very good, not very good condition. That Brown lab, if you look at it from above from the air, it say a U or perhaps a see a block C. And and and so what we had renovated was the south wing of that see, we had done several years ago. And so what needs to be Renovated, is front of the building, the West Wing, and the north wing of the building. And we're in the process of doing that, but at the same time we're doing that, we're filling in the EMT portion in the sea with high base, base suitable for the magnets for NMR kinds of considerations. So, so that's what it looks like. It's in progress right now. It's a twenty-seven million dollar project. This is the infill that I was telling you about. And you see in the in the upper right, it's, it's been infilled and, and a lot of the mechanical systems are sitting on the roof of the, of the infield portion on the lower left, you see what it looked like before? It was just a big empty space. And it was really interesting construction project because the person who was driving the crane and was dropping the steel and couldn't see where it was gone. It was all done blind because there's a building behind and there's there's there building on each side. And so he was dropping it over and being guided in by people on radio is talking to him about which way to move things and so forth. That that was interesting and also made it more expensive than it would've been agreed ahead. Clear shot at Mars library, a nice project at Mars library and multimedia center. And the idea is to have people, students, faculty, whoever I'll be able to go to the multimedia center at and really work on, on presentations, on how presentations can, can, can be made. And it's a project of a of about $1.3 million that that is being expended there. And this is what the downstairs with a library will be located. Did walk, bike, and here it is under under construction for how it's going to work. >> It's a really good project. >> And it's keeping with the fact that the reality about libraries is that their role is, is changing in, in, in how, how they serve as university communities and becoming much more a partnership kind of activity than, than has been. The pathogen has been the case in the past. I, unlike certain other college presidents, do not think that the days of the library are over. But anyhow, right. Dolores stadium is is is always in in some little state of repair. Repair right now. We spend about a million one on on bringing the stands up to date so that they don't leave. The concrete was folding a bit and so forth. And all of that has been taken care of rather nicely in there. If they're really quite good shape on the west at, the bad news, of course, is very stands and they'll have to be up, they'll have to be renovated accordingly. This I don't have a picture of, of after SEE Quine edition. And it's a, it's a project of of cost. We think about $800 thousand for, for the College of Agriculture. And many of you notice as you're walking by Robinson Hall at we're doing a roof replacement. Taught that this the first pictures will show you why we're doing the roof replacement. It's a slate roof. And when we got into that that project, it was so it was a bigger project than we had understood it to be because so there were a lot of strengthening and weakening over time of the of the roofs supports. So a lot of trust that's had to be replaced and so forth. And and it's it's coming along now. These pictures are taken probably about a week ago and they are working actually on the roof, the under, underpinnings of the roof, and enslaved as going on a red rather quickly. And so they should be out of there probably by the end of the month. We're planning to do some things to so so in project in progress, that's about $35 billion worth of of, of construction that I just showed you. Some things that we're planning to do is we're going to do the Russell We're going to renovate the the Russell complex. And it's in fact off line right now. What you're looking at this you're looking from the beach at at to Russell dorms. We we replaced the pen cater dorms with remember at the beginning to dorm. So 250 at one dorm of 500 bullpen cater had 750 beds. So we ended up with 250 bits more, which allows us to take Russell offline and we will renovate the Russell dormitory. And we're going to do it in a way that we learn about just what the elements in a renovations heart to be of because we're going to do a lot of dormitory renovations in in the next in the next few years, enrollment services. We're planning a building. Yeah. I suppose you you recognize that tests when you're coming up South college and just before you get to the visitor center there set sign and a welcome sign in, in several different languages. We're planning to set a building there, and the occupants of which will be the Office of Admissions, registrar's office, and the office of financial aid. >> And we're doing that really for two reasons. >> There's both a push and pull. Push is it's likely, I think that the next admit will statistically, it's a fact that the next administration will probably have a larger number of administrators than than the current administration does, which means there will probably be a requirement for more space in the administration building. And that building is chock-a-block right now. So we'd like to create some flexibility of by moving those three units out of the administration building. More importantly than that though, is the President set the that the admissions office in particular, >> That it's presence vis-a-vis visitors. >> It is not really representative of how good this university is. And we have wanted for a long time to be able to put them in a more, more suitable situation where they can be more hospitable. And Eric meet people where they have interview rooms and all of the things that will contribute to them being to do, being able to do their jobs even better than, than they do at present. So we'll build that building and we'll get to trustees to approve that at their meeting this fall, and it will start on it sometime in 2007, somewhat early in 2007. Oh, we're planning to build an undergraduate science building. This building will be diagonally across the corner from Kohlberg laboratory. So, so sort of across the street, you can see on, on, on the left side of the picture, that's the Student Services Building. That's air. So it's been built sort of a long love it Avenue and, and a little bit facing Academy history sort of idea. Then this building is, is an important building for two reasons. One is we need more modern teaching situations for, for undergraduate laboratory. A student says that's one reason and we will be happy if we were able to have those. Second is we would like to be able to, after this building is built, to be able to renovate the current teaching laboratories, which tend to be in where the department are located and make them into research laboratory space for the faculty members who reside in those locations. So there'll be close to their research laboratories. But what we teach our undergraduates in a very modern situation that we think is going to be about a $40 million project. And that's the corner that it sits on. You recognize a blue house right on the horror of it. An academy. That's where the, the, the custodians GO TO exchange keys when they when they come to work, many of them do when they come to work in the morning. So there'll be in that area and and since we're replacing will be taking some parking, we would want to replace up parking with with a parking deck. And in Vaclav Pearson Hall, our strategy on parking decks has sort of been to surround the campus with parking decks. If you think about it, that at, at Troy bond and then over at the Perkins Student Center, and then the one at the Center for the Arts. We're sort of trying to surround the campus with, with parking decks, so that one parking deck or another is pretty convenient for everyone. And so Pierson seems like the next most likely place to to build a parking deck. So it would go in that area in back of him. Back with Pearson Hall >> I see building is in difficult shaped. >> The pictures there show that's he Institute for energy conversion. It's on library Road and and it, it, it, it's in need of some help. And and we're going to do that. The academy building is, is due for Windows to be replaced. And you see in the lower right hand corner the current state of their, of their heating and air conditioning system. It is not exactly a state-of-the-art effect. We were trying to figure out how old it is. I think we get into the fifties when, when it was mass to tended to. Robin morgan wants a new milk forever, shall be able to tell you all about that. If you ask her. She's so she's generally very nice to cows and other all other. And so those are the planning. Now, some things that are actually recommended for construction are what layer of residence hall complex? Phase three. Phase one was George read, phase two was Thomas McCain and James Smith dormitories, 1000 bids. And there was a phase three to build 600 additional bids. And what that area will look like when a new product, when the new project is done. You see George Reid on the far right and you see Smith and McCain dorm is along a walkway. And the L-shaped building that was ghosted in on, on the on the first slide I showed you, we'll be there sort of Bill, kind of above ring road across the street from, from the the the two arch sorority houses will have a playing field. And for the whole area of dormitories in front of that net open area that you see sort of into the L. And that's, that's big enough for, for playing intramural sports and so forth. And of course, campus that that if that area is going to be something other than a mud hole, will have to use artificial turf for that playing field. And that's figured into the cost of that particular project. The cost of that project is is $51 million. So that project, we will start on that dormitory in March of 2007, this coming March, and it will then be done for fall of 2008. The door will be open. Now, remember I told you that we tore down 750 dormitory rooms where we now have built 1600 dormitory. We have 850 dormitory rooms bids more than we had when we started a dormitory construction. And what that will allow us to do is to take 850 beds at a time. We're practicing on Russell dorm with 250 bits, will now begin taking 850 bits at a time offline. And in four years you'll be able to say that every, every dormitory bed at the University of Delaware as either new, meaning built in the last seven or eight years, or newly renovated. So that's been a weak spot in our pain. Our recruitment is a condition of the dormitories and we aim to address that. By the way, the way the way it will go through that renovation of dormitories is the last dormitory it to make a decision about will be the Rodney complex. And the question will be, are we going to renovate it or are we going to tear down? I don't have to make that decision. And actually, it's a good thing I don't get to make a decision because I've already made my decision that I just think that the dormitory we can do better than that ET is meanwhile, we're stabilizing it, making nice. So the students are living in up while the other renovations or growing law will find it a good place to be. This is a little bit of what a new dorm will look like. This is from Ring Road to top picture ring road looking up, you'd be up the stairs and are so handicap allows for handy for handicapped entry to the same area. And then when you come up through the forest scientists whole dormitory complex, we'll, we'll open up to you so that, that's, that's a little bit of what it's gonna look like in business school. We're planning and recommending for construction of financial technology center. So a trading floor so that, so that the business students have, have that experience and that that will be located in learner Hall. And here's Rob that again, she wants a manure storage facility for Robin here. Yeah. >> I thought she was I thought I sorry. >> I'm picking on. Are today a manure storage facility? We don't know how much that's going to cause, but probably twice as much as Robin told us are initially. But but, but anyhow, so, so that's a little bit about, about the, the space on campus. Now, one other thing I wanted to talk to you all about just, just ever so briefly, is to is to tell you, it is my sense that the search for the next administration in particular from my successor is going well, I have no role and won't seek no role in in any determination of who that who that person should be. On the other hand, I was asked if I would work to see if I could get good people into the search. And I've done that. And I, so I know perhaps not all that, but I know many of the people who are in the search, they're good people, very good people from, from the great universities in, in, in the country. And I think that when it comes time that they can named names, and that's not that time now, but when it is time to name names, I think that you all will be very, very pleased to see the kind of individuals who would have thought that they might like to come to the to the University of Delaware and serve as as its president. Any questions I might be able to answer. >> Carol, your phone? >> Good. Good. Okay. Thank you very much. >> But I like to convene the meeting of the faculty senate, excuse me. >> And for the adoption of the agenda, there is one change, provost Dan rich, and I'd like to postpone his remarks until our next meeting in November. >> So otherwise, the agenda remains as saying do I hear a motion to adopt the agenda of the second favor Host. >> Thank you. >> And as far as the approval of the minutes from us, September eighth, 18 Do I hear a motion? >> Second. >> I felt most critical things that Robert was planning to commit significantly over the years though, revalidate with words like that. >> It does evolve. >> Program, we write programs. >> You're asking for further discussion, explaining the details and just wonder, well, perhaps I don't know if this is appropriate. Button his remarks in November, he get address that that be acceptable, although he did say that topic would've oh, okay. >> Well, that could be amended to Republican. >> I'll be happy to shade. That can be ten. >> So with that, is there a second? >> All in favor hose? >> Thank you. As far as announcements, I only have one. >> And that's related to the agenda committee. And that is that on October 13th at 04:00 PM and Mitchell hall, there won't be a lecture by Sir John Marin, Thomas Faraday, and Franklin lecture. >> And everyone is encouraged to attend as he's supposed to be an excellent speaker and given excellent presentation that subject. >> I'm looking at the remainder of the agenda. >> There basically no additional items. >> And so Ezer and introduction of a new business from the floor hearing? None. Is there a motion to adjourn? Second. >> On favor. >> Thank you very much.
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