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Pomona
College Dedicates New Academic Buildings Built to U.S.
Green Building Standards
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Pomona College's newest academic buildings, the adjacent
Lincoln and Edmunds buildings located on Sixth Street and
College Way in Claremont, will be dedicated on March 2. The
ceremony will begin at 3 p.m., with Pomona College President
David W. Oxtoby presiding and Northwestern University
Psychology Professor William Revelle, Pomona College Class
of 1965, serving as the guest speaker. Departmental open
houses will follow from 3:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The Lincoln and Edmunds buildings, which span a combined
92,000 square feet at the northern end of campus, are
Pomona’s second and third buildings designed and built to
the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) standards for silver
certification. Their green-friendly features range from a
photovoltaic system, to waterless urinals and efficient
irrigation for landscaping. Construction involved the
elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) and halon
refrigerants and the use of recycled materials and rapidly
renewable materials, such as the bamboo flooring used in
parts of the buildings.
Home to departments such as Geology and Psychology,
the new Lincoln and Edmunds (pictured) buildings will be dedicated March 2.
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The two new buildings, which cost $40 million, provide
innovative research space and teaching facilities for
several department and programs. Connected by a second-story
walkway, the new buildings are designed to create stronger
ties between academic disciplines. The departments of
Psychology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science occupy
space in both buildings. Edmunds also houses the departments
of Computer Science and Geology as well as the Environmental
Analysis Program. Lincoln is home to Neuroscience and three
intercollegiate departments—Asian American Studies, Black
Studies and Chicano/a Studies.
The clustering of disciplines related to the science of the
mind—such as computer science, psychology, neuroscience and
cognitive science—is intended to create synergies and
facilitate collaboration. Departments also will benefit from
new equipment and technologies and from lounge spaces
designed to foster a sense of community among students.
The Lincoln and Edmunds buildings were made possible through
a $10 million gift from Lillian Lincoln Howell ’43 of
Hillsborough, Calif. The donation is the largest single gift
from a living donor ever received by the College. The naming
of the Lincoln Building honors Howell’s family, including
her father, John C. Lincoln, who founded the Lincoln
Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and her son, Lincoln C.
Howell. The Edmunds Building is named in honor of Charles K.
Edmunds, the fifth president of Pomona College, to whom
Howell has said she owes a special debt of gratitude for his
support during her first years at Pomona.
While an undergraduate at Pomona from 1939 to 1943, Howell
studied science and philosophy and enrolled in a variety of
courses, including psychology. She also wrote poetry. “Over
the years,” she noted when the gift to the College was
announced in 2005, “new fields of study have emerged,
including neuroscience and cognitive science, that are of
immense interest to me. With the new buildings, all programs
at Pomona involving the science of the mind will be located
together. It will be very exciting.”
The buildings’ Draper Courtyard, still under construction,
will be home to a “skyspace” and landscape setting designed
by internationally renowned artist James Turrell, who works
in the perceptual effects of light and space and is a 1965
graduate of Pomona. His skyspaces -- meditative chambers
open to the sky -- are precisely designed architectural
installations intended to heighten the viewer’s awareness of
perceptual boundaries and the interplay of light and sky.
The Pomona College skyspace, to be completed in October
2007, will be open to the public during scheduled hours.
Further information on visitation will be available in
September.
Pomona College, founded in 1887, offers its students a
comprehensive program in the arts, humanities, social
sciences and natural sciences. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of student research opportunities. Pomona
College is also known as one of the small handful of
colleges that meets the full financial need of each one of
its accepted students. For more information on Pomona
College, visit www.pomona.edu. |
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