CSU LIFE
FACULTY & STAFF
SEPTEMBER 2018
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Celebrate the 10th anniversary for the University Center for the Arts
Restoring Colorado’s Forests Fund: new trees needed to restore vegetation loss from summer forest fires
Backyard flock owners: Beware of virulent Newcastle disease)
Diversity office grows to meet campus demand
It’s Only Natural Michael Smith Natural Resources Building Photo by Sara Graydon
Michael Smith Natural Resources Building now open By Rob Novak
The new home of Colorado State University’s Warner ollege of Natural Resources, the Michael Smith Natural esources Building, is open for the fall semester with new assrooms and meeting rooms, ample open study space for udents, and a multitude of connections to the natural world. The approximately 50,000-square-foot addition to the xisting building began construction in May 2017, and was ompleted in mid-August. The building’s new main entrance faces west toward he academic spine of campus and Lory Student Center laza. Visitors enter into an extended atrium that features marvelous two-story living wall; the live-edge community bles are made from campus trees getting a second life. The uilding’s exterior is accented with Douglas-fir trimmed soffits nd a 50-foot-tall Douglas-fir glulam pillar that supports the antilevered roof on the west side. “The vision for the addition was set collectively by our ommunity,” said Warner College Dean John Hayes, “and e’re pleased to have delivered on that vision and to welcome
back our students to the new space. We think the new classrooms, study spaces, and the Student Success Center will enhance our academic mission and bolster our community for decades to come.” A student-centric building The college’s first Student Success Center, named for donors and alumni John and Dolores Goodier, will be staffed by the new Warner College Student Ambassadors. Prospective students will explore undergraduate programs while current students will receive resources and career advising in the center. The Prairie Conference Room adjacent to the student success center is available for student organization meetings and other student-oriented activities. New dynamic college teaching spaces for technology-based classes and two new teaching lab spaces for specimen-based courses in ichthyology, dendrology, watershed science and geology are sure to be favorites for students and instructors alike. A 120-seat dynamic general assignment classroom, funded by CSU students, will host classes from majors throughout the university.
The Center for Collaborative Conservation can now be found on the building’s third floor along with the business and human resources offices. The dean’s office occupies the fourth floor of the addition. The addition also adds meeting spaces for the college. A series of small meeting rooms on each floor overlook Sherwood Forest through floor-to-ceiling windows; the garage door window in the Canopy Meeting Room on the fourth floor can be opened to let in the breeze and birdsong. On the west side of the building the large, flexible, Horsetooth Rock Conference Room will be available for groups to hold larger meetings. Along with the building addition, Sherwood Forest is also going to look fresh and improved. A new stone retaining wall will provide far more seating in the area along with an outdoor classroom space. Later this fall, an event to thank donors and christen the building will be held to welcome alumni back to campus and the new home of Warner College.