9.2 million
Cost in dollars of the Campus
Center Hotel makeover, to be completed
next spring.
The hotel remains open while one- and two-bedroom suites acquire new
beds, chairs,
dressers, hair dryers, coffeemakers, plasma TVs, and high-speed Internet
access. The renovation by Boston architectural firm Gensler,
Inc. honors
modernist
Marcel Breuer’s original 1970 design, and hopefully will earn a three-star
rating for
the 116-room hotel, says Meredith E. Schmidt, director of the facility.
500
The total number of cameras on campus in residential halls,
dining commons, and other buildings.
1.1 million
Cost in dollars, to Housing Services, for the security camera installation, begun in 2000.
11
Percent rise in earnings for Massachusetts families in the top 20 percent
of the income scale between 1989 and 2006, adjusted for inflation.
In the same time frame, earnings of middle class families were essentially
flat and those of the poor fell, according to new research by the Amherst-based
UMass Donahue Institute.
40 million
Cost in dollars of recent campus improvements and repairs completed this past summer, including:
5 million
Cost of new PVTA Transit Center, to house buses, a driver training
area, and a regional traffic information center.
2.9 million
Cost to create a nanotechnology center in the Conte Polymer Research
Center
8 million
Cost to waterproof and repair the facade of Lederle Graduate Research
Center
1.5 million
Cost to modernize elevators in Herter, Thompson, and Tobin halls
2 million
Cost to install a wireless fire alarm system connecting the entire
campus
1.6 million
Cost for new fire alarm and emergency light systems in Boyden Gym
2 million
Cost to install new plumbing pipes in the music wing in the Fine Arts
Center
543,000
Cost to provide a new entrance loading docks and to improve traffic
in parking lot 71, including creating handicapped and motorcycle parking
areas, near the Whitmore Administration Building.
