STATE UNIVERSITIES
EMU’s Wise Hall headlines list of summer construction projects
Eastern Michigan University students living in Wise Residence Hall this year can expect a top-notch living experience, the result of a continuing renovation project that highlighted an active summer of construction at EMU. Phases I, II and III of the multiyear, multiphased construction of the Wise Hall project are being completed this summer, at an overall cost of $8.4 million.
Michigan Tech fall enrollment highest in 33 years
Undergraduate enrollment this year at Michigan Technological University totaled 5,827. New first-year undergraduate enrollment rose 8 percent over last year with 1,580 students starting classes this semester, 119 more than last year. This is the largest incoming undergraduate first-year class since 1983.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
UC Berkeley receives $4.6 million grant to improve automated cars and drones
University of California, Berkeley engineers are embarking on a major project to improve the safety of self-driving vehicles and how they interact with humans. With $4.6 million over five years from the National Science Foundation, the researchers have formed a group called VeHICaL — Verified Human Interfaces, Control, and Learning for Semi-Autonomous Systems — to develop and verify the design of human-machine interfaces for controlling so-called cyber-physical systems.
Rutgers University opens new academic building
Rutgers University is opening a 175,000-square-foot academic building on the former site of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and a three-building complex of student apartments on what was a parking lot at the corner of College Avenue and Hamilton Street. The $116 million Rutgers Academic Building will contain modern lecture halls, large and small classrooms, informal learning spaces as well as conference rooms and faculty offices, and will be the new home of the School of Arts and Sciences.
New Institute for Korean Studies at IU receives $1M in grants
Indiana University recently launched its Institute for Korean Studies, created through generous support from The Korea Foundation, whose contribution also made possible the first endowed chair in Korean studies. The institute already has been awarded two grants from the Korea-based Academy of Korean Studies, including one valued at $1 million, which will establish IU as the academy’s hub for Korean studies in the Midwest.
— Compiled by Meg Bauer, The University Record
