University of Scranton buildings and landmarks

The Commons. The Commons is a brick walkway that runs through the center of The University of Scranton

The University of Scranton encompasses approximately 58 acres of land as of 2010.[1]

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library

Completed in 1992, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library was designed to replace the Alumni Memorial Library, which proved unable to serve adequately the growing student population, to house the vast library collections, and lacked the necessary wiring for modernizing the library with new technological advances.[2] More than double the size of the Alumni Memorial Library, the Weinberg Memorial Library has five floors which can seat anywhere from 700 to 1000 users at cubicles, tables, group study rooms, and lounges.[3] It currently houses 473,830 volumes, over 15,500 electronic journals, 562,368 microform pieces and 1,709 periodical subscriptions, both current and archived. It is also home to the University Archives and Special Collections, which features many rare books, as well as University records. On the third floor, there are a number of administrative offices as well as two large classrooms which are used for classes based on learning about the library and the services it can provide. The fourth floor has a large reading room featuring a stained glass window and a comfortable, quiet environment in which students can study at tables and couches.[4] The fifth floor is the Scranton Heritage Room which is a large open hall featuring beautiful views of the city, the surrounding mountains, and the Commons as well as thirty-nine panel paintings by Trevor Southey depict art, religion, and science in the Lackawanna Valley and in the world.[5] Throughout the year, the Heritage Room hosts various exhibits including displays of artifacts and documents from the University’s archives and special collections, showcases of faculty scholarship and University alumni authors, and the library's Environmental Art Show.[6] The Heritage Room also serves as the venue for many campus and community events such as lectures, receptions, student award presentations, Game Night, and the library's annual Book Sale.[6]

Since its completion, the Library has continued to adapt to the needs of its students and to update its resources to ensure that the students and faculty have access to new technological innovations. Renovations at the Library include the opening of multiple 24-hour study rooms, including the Pro Deo Room, the Reilly Learning Commons, and, most recently, the entire second floor. The Pro Deo Room contains a computer lab with networked PCs, two laser printers, a vending machine area, and a Java City Café. The Pro Deo Room also features a 46-inch touchscreen table PC.[7] The Pro Deo Room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In order to accommodate the growing needs of students for more 24-hour study space in the library, the Library built a new space in 2010 which contained more than one hundred study spaces for students at cubicles, tables, and couches.[8] This study space was renovated in 2014. Renamed the Reilly Learning Commons, the study room is now an interactive space with high end technology, group study rooms and areas designed to enhance collaboration.[9] The Learning Commons houses a lecture capture room to practice presentations and record them digitally, two writing center offices, technology support, and brand new iMacs.[9] In Fall 2015, in response to student feedback, the entire second floor of the library was opened for 24-hour use, allowing for more access to carrels, computers, and space for quiet study.[10]

In order to raise the $13.3 million dollars needed to build the Library, the University of Scranton launched the “Gateway to the Future” Fundraising Campaign.[11] During his speech at the Gateway to the Future Library Kickoff, Rev. Panuska underscored the importance of building a library which could adequately serve the needs of the University community, stating that "a library is the essential non-human instrument which contributes to our meaning. It touches the arts as well as business and science. It focuses both faculty and students on the intellectual aspect of University life, where the focus must be. It keeps us in touch with the knowledge of the past and with what is happening today, therefore allowing us intelligently to form the future. It is a center for the transmission of knowledge, today involving the must [sic] advanced electronic technology.”[12] In late 1989, Harry Weinberg, a former Scranton businessman and long-time benefactor of the University of Scranton, made significant headway in the fundraising goal by announcing a six million dollar donation to the University from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, with five million dollars going to the library and the other one million going to the school’s Judaic Studies Institute.[13] In order to honor the significant contribution of Mr. Weinberg, the new library was named for him and his wife.

Before becoming home to the Weinberg Memorial Library, the site had once belonged to Worthington Scranton where he lived until moving to the Estate in 1899, at which point the house was converted into the Hahneman Hospital until it relocated in 1906 to the current Community Medical Center site.[5] In 1941, Scranton donated the land to the University. In the 1950s, the site held the A Building barracks, which were purchased by the University in order to accommodate increased enrollment due to the GI Bill which were used as classrooms and offices, until they were demolished in 1962.[14] Until the construction of the Weinberg Memorial Library in the 1990s, the site housed asphalt playing courts.[5]

The Patrick and Margaret DeNaples Center

The DeNaples Center is the University's Campus Center. The building was formally dedicated on February 29, 2008, just two months after first opening. It was named to honor local business owner and reputed organized crime associate[15] Louis DeNaples, who asked that it be named for his parents. It features several eating options, including Aramark's first Fresh Food Company in the northeast and retail-style dining in the DeNaples Food Court.

The DeNaples Center's first floor houses student mailboxes, commuter lockers, the University of Scranton bookstore, and a Provisions on Demand (P.O.D.) convenience store. The first floor also contains the DeNaples Food Court including Starbucks Coffee, Chic-Fil-A, and Quizno's among other options.
The second floor is home to several offices and student space. The Student Forum contains a computer lab for students to use, as well as student space with couches and tables. The Student Forum is home to the Center for Student Engagement, including the offices for the University of Scranton Programming Board (USPB), the Aquinas newspaper, the Windhover yearbook, the Jane Kopas Women's Center, Student Government, and Community Outreach. University Ministries offices are located adjacent to the student fireplace lounge complete with piano and flatscreen television.
The Fresh Food Company operates on the entire third floor. This is the main student cafeteria. Students may use their meal plans or pay for entry. Resident freshman are required to purchase the Unlimited Mealplan, which allows unlimited entry to the cafeteria.
The fourth floor contains an auditorium, a ballroom, and conference rooms.

The University Commons

The Commons. The Commons is a brick walkway that runs through the center of The University of Scranton

For twenty five years, there had been an effort by the University of Scranton to close the 900 and 1000 blocks of Linden Street which ran through the school’s campus.[16] In 1980, the improvement project was actualized. The Commons project was intended to create a more attractive, park-like atmosphere on the campus and to eliminate the safety hazards associated with pedestrian and vehicle traffic.[17] With that new space, the University hoped to create a twenty-foot wide brick walkway, trees, benches, a water fountain, and patio area in addition to developing the area with landscaping.[17]

The plan was met with resistance and objections from some members of the Scranton community. Some, including the Hill Neighborhood Association, expressed concerns about Linden Street’s closing negatively affecting traffic flow, failing to provide significant access to emergency vehicles, and decreasing the availability of parking in the Hill section of the city.[18] Others, however, supported the University’s Commons plan, including notable organizations and individuals such as the Scranton Times, Scranton City Councilman James Doherty, the board of directors of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce, and the Lackawanna County Regional Planning Commission.[16]

The University Commons proposal was approved by the Scranton City Council on December 20, 1978.[19] In order to accommodate the concerns of some members of the Scranton community, the University replaced the 84 legal parking spaces closed on Linden Street with over 100 legal parking spaces.[19] The University also reduced the size of the traffic triangle at Linden Street and Monroe Avenue by one-third, creating a smooth traffic flow on Monroe to accommodate Linden Street’s closing and widened the turning radius on Monroe.[19] The University also pledged 40,000 dollars towards the construction of traffic lights to manage traffic flow.[20] Construction on the project was begun on June 2, 1980, as parts of Linden Street were removed.[21] The project was completed around November 1980[22] and dedication ceremonies were held in December 1980.[23] Currently, it serves as the main walkway through the University's campus.

Royal Way

In 1991, the University Commons was extended on the 300 block of Quincy Avenue between Linden and Mulberry Streets, which had been closed to vehicular traffic and owned by the University since 1987.[24] This pedestrian pathway, named Royal Way, serves as an official entrance to the University and the GLM (Gannon-Lavis-McCormick) student residences.

At the time of its construction, the 24-foot wide Royal Way was paved in z-brick and featured landscaping with trees and shrubs.[25] The Mulberry Street entrance to the Royal Way featured a campus gate, a gift from the University of Scranton Classes of 1985, 1990 and 1991,[24] and the opposing terminus was Metanoia, the bronze sculpture of St. Ignatius by Gerard Baut.[26] The sculpture has since been moved to the opposite side of the University Commons, in front of the Long Center.

Current Academic Buildings

Alumni Memorial Hall

Many of the University's College of Arts & Sciences' buildings may be seen from the Father Pantle's Rose Garden.

Completed in 1960, the two-story building, formerly called Alumni Memorial Library, was designed to hold 150,000 volumes, as the collection at the time numbered approximately 62,000 volumes. It also had study space for approximately 500 students. The split-level design also included conference rooms, a music room, a visual aid room, microfilm facilities, and a smoking lounge.[27] The buff iron-spot building was considered cutting edge at the time, with glare-reducing thermo-pane glass, noise-reducing solid brick walls, radiant heating and cooling, and humidity control.[27] Although originally estimated at 750,000, overall construction costs were approximately $806,000 after complications occurred when a massive mining cavity, complete with a network of surrounding tunnels, was discovered to lie only forty feet below the surface of the building site.[28] Using a digging rig brought in from Texas, contractors sunk 33 steel casings into the ground, each more than 40 feet long, and then poured concrete through them to form pillars in order to support the structure.[28] To raise money for the construction, a fundraising campaign led by Judge James F. Brady sought individual contributions from each of the University's alumni.[29]

The building was extensively renovated in 1993 after the completion of the new Weinberg Memorial Library. No longer needed to house the University’s book collection or to serve as a study space for students, Alumni Memorial Hall was converted to house the Psychology Department on the second floor, which had formerly been located in O’Hara Hall, as well as the Division of Planning and Information Resources, which was formerly known as the University Computing and Data Services Center.[30] The new location in Alumni Memorial Hall “significantly enhance[d] educational and research facilities” for the Psychology Department, as John Norcross, chairman of the Psychology Department, remarked.[30] It offers faculty offices with adjoining labs, two classrooms designated for psychology, a conference room, open labs for students, facilities which better house experimental equipment, and state of the art animal facilities.[30] The space for the University Computing System included a main computer room, private study areas, several computer labs such as a DOS lab and a Macintosh lab, help desks, staff offices and areas for computer programmers.[30] Currently, the Division of Information Resources is responsible for providing technology-based services and solutions that support the work of the University, and guide the management of its information assets through the departments of Project Management, Network Infrastructure, Database Systems & Data Processing, Systems & Operations, Information Security Offices, IT Services, OIT Services, the Technology Support Center, and IT Development & Applications.[31] Originally, the renovations also provided space for the offices for Institutional Research, Learning Resources and Instructional Development, which was later renamed the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and relocated to the fifth floor of the Loyola Science Center.[30]

Brennan Hall

Brennan Hall. Completed in 2000.

Completed in 2000, Brennan Hall houses the departments of the Arthur J. Kania School of Management, or KSOM. The five-story, 71,000-square-foot building, located on the east side of Madison Avenue, features nine classrooms, seminar rooms, offices, a 140-seat auditorium, a quiet study area, an advising center, board rooms, and an Executive Education Center.[32]

The classrooms are located on the first two floors of Brennan Hall. Two of the nine classrooms are two tiered case-study rooms equipped for video teleconferencing. Two other classrooms are computers rooms, while the rest are traditional classrooms. Each of the nine classrooms contains a principal teaching station, or the "control center for the classroom." The workstation allows teachers to control the classroom's lighting, display screens and computers. Teachers will be able to connect to The University's video library and access satellite television. Additionally, the building possesses a self contained network accessible from each classroom seat.[33] In 2008, the University dedicated one of Brennan Hall’s classrooms. The Jack and Jean Blackledge Sweeney Classroom on the first floor honors Jack Sweeney '61, the retired president and co-founder of Special Defense Systems in Dunmore, a member of the Pride, Passion, Promise Campaign Executive Committee, and an active University of Scranton alumni.[34]

The first floor also contains the Irwin E. Alperin Financial Center, which was opened in 2007. The Alperin Center was designed to simulate a stock market trading floor, complete with an electronic ticker and data displays, 40 computers, a surround sound system, conference facilities, and a network of specialized software-designed to support the Kania School business curriculum with simulation capabilities and faculty-student research on financial and commodity markets.[35] Created to empower Kania faculty to use high-tech teaching tools to instruct students in concepts that will prepare them for the workforce, the Center provides a space where students could explore concepts like portfolio construction and risk management.[36] The Center is dedicated in honor of the late Irwin E. Alperin, a benefactor of the University of Scranton and a driving force in the economic growth of Scranton and Northeastern Pennsylvania through his company, Alperin Inc. which provided employment opportunities for local residents.[36] He had previously generously contributed to the University of Scranton, establishing the Alperin Chair, the first chair in the Kania School of Management, as well as a scholarship that provides financial assistance for outstanding students who otherwise might not be able to pursue a college education.[36]

The third and fourth floors house faculty offices, departmental offices, the dean’s office, and conference rooms. There is a behavioral lab for teaching and research purposes, meeting and storage places for clubs and an MBA lounge that will include locker space for master’s degree students.[37]

The fifth floor houses the Executive Education Center. The Executive Center includes five main areas: a dining room, a board room, a meeting room, a large reception area, and an auditorium on the second floor. The Center provides a businesslike environment for the University to host an expanded offering of continuing education programs, particularly in the areas of professional development and training in the use of new technologies.[32] The Executive Education Center provides technologically advanced conference space for the university, and businesses and organizations throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.[38] In 2005, it was named the Joseph M. McShane, S.J., Executive Center to commemorate not only Father McShane’s tenure as President of the University of Scranton from 1998 until 2003 but also his vision and drive to create a home for the Kania School of Management that “would serve as common ground for the university and the broader community.”[38] The Pearn Auditorium, which seats 140, serves as a gathering space for various lectures, presentations and community events. The 148-seat auditorium is equipped with the latest technology, including a network connection at every seat. The auditorium features Dolby surround sound, theater-style seating, a portable lectern with a touch screen control system and teleconference capabilities.[32] Dedicated in 2008, the James F. Pearn Auditorium on the second floor of Brennan Hall is named for the late father of Frank Pearn ‘83, the chief administrative officer of the Mergers and Acquisitions Division of Lehman Brothers, the chair of the University's Economic Strength Committee of the Board of Trustees, and a member of the Campaign Executive Committee.[34] Dedicated in 2008, the Rose Room, located on the fifth floor of Brennan Hall, is used for lectures, dinners, luncheons, seminars, and other campus events.[34] It can accommodate more than 200 people. It honors Harry Rose '65, the president and chief executive officer of The Rose Group, a restaurant management company, a member of the University's Board of Trustees, and a member of the Campaign Executive Committee.[34] The Executive Center also contains a 50-seat board room which is used by various governing boards of the University, including the Board of Trustees , University Council and University Senate.[39] In 2003, the University of Scranton named the board room in honor of PNC Bank to recognize a significant grant from the PNC Foundation for the construction of Brennan Hall and to acknowledge the support PNC has consistently provided to the university, as "PNC Bank has been a loyal friend of the University of Scranton and a generous supporter of our educational mission and commitment to serve those living in northeast Pennsylvania.”[39] Additional facilities of the Executive Center, which is available to organizations outside the University, include a lobby and reception area , and a meeting room accommodating 20 people.

Brennan Hall also holds 38 photographic reproductions of stained glass windows from eight churches throughout northeastern Pennsylvania, photographed by Guy Cali Associates. Churches represented include St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Nativity Church, Covenant Presbyterian Church, and St. Peter's Cathedral, Scranton; First Presbyterian Church and Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre; Trinity Episcopal Church, Carbondale; and Grace Church, Honesdale.[40] The poster-size prints hang throughout the hallways and in the boardroom of Brennan Hall, which houses the Kania School of Management.[40] The Tiffany Glass Company produced several of the stained glass windows represented, including "Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem" and "The Ascension" from Covenant Presbyterian Church as well as “The Nativity” from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church.[40] For University of Scranton President Joseph M. McShane, S.J., Brennan Hall represented a place to highlight regional treasures that are rarely seen outside of each church's own congregation.[40] Additionally, the stained glass window reproductions “symbolize the University of Scranton's history of service to the people of Northeastern Pennsylvania and proclaim the university's continued commitment to this region for the 21st century.”[40]

Financed by the Campaign of Scranton, a $35 million capital fundraising effort, Brennan Hall cost $11.5 million dollars to construct.[41] The funds raised to build Brennan Hall included a $3.5 million gift from alumnus John E. Brennan ‘68 and $1 million of a $4 million gift from alumnus Arthur J. Kania ‘53, for whom the School of Management is named, with additional Campaign funds coming from alumni, friends of the University, corporations, and foundations.[32] In order to recognize Brennan’s generous contribution to the University, the new building was named in his honor. John E. Brennan is the President of Activated Communications, New York City; a Director and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Southern Union Company; a member of the Board of Directors for Spectrum Signal Processing; and a founder of Metro Mobile CTS, Inc., and served as its President and Chief Operating Officer until its sale to Bell Atlantic Corp.[32]

Ciszek Hall

Ciszek Hall, formerly known as the Center for Eastern Christian Studies, was built as an ecumenical and academic institute designed to promote knowledge about and understanding of the religious and cultural traditions of Eastern Christianity.[42] In addition to the Byzantine Rite chapel in the building, the Center was designed to house a 15,000-volume library, office, social area, and a cloister garden.[43] Construction was begun in 1987 and completed later that year. The Center for Eastern Christian Studies was renamed Ciszek in 2005 in the memory of Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J., a native of northeastern Pennsylvania and a candidate for sainthood who spent twenty-three years ministering in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia.[44] Currently, Cisek Hall houses the University’s Office of Career Services, a chapel which celebrates service in the Byzantine Rite, and a library containing 15,000 books and a Byzantine Rite chapel.

The Houlihan-McLean Center

In 1986, the University of Scranton acquired the former Immanuel Baptist Church at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Mulberry Street in order to house the school’s Performance Music Program, which includes the University’s Orchestra, Bands, and Singers,[45] as well as to serve as a site for musical and other arts performances, lectures, and special liturgies.[46] The church was built in 1909 in the Victorian Gothic style. In 1984, the church was vacated when the congregation merged with the Bethany and Green Ridge Baptist churches before being acquired by the University of Scranton.[47] After its purchase by the University, the building underwent extensive renovations and restoration, including plaster repair and floor refinishing, painting and carpeting, extension of the stage, electrical re-wiring, new lighting, a new sound system, refurbishing the organ, pressure cleaning and restoration of the building’s masonry, and the installation of a new roof.

The main floor of the building houses the Aula, a concert hall which can seat approximately 650 people; the Atrium, a large space which can be used as a recital, reception, or lecture hall that can seat 400 people and formerly served as the church's Sunday School; the Wycliffe A. Gordon Guest Artist Hospitality Suite, and the sound control room.[46] The ground floor of the building includes a large rehearsal hall, small ensembles areas, a musicians' lounge, practice rooms, offices, music library, and secure instrument storage and repair areas.[48] The Nelhybel Collection Research Room is on the top floor, along with the organ loft and organ chamber.[49] Houlihan-McLean features an historic 1910 Austin Opus 301 symphonic pipe organ, one of only a few surviving examples of early 20th century organ building.[50] The 3,157 pipes, which include some as large as 17 feet long which weigh 200 pounds and others which are smaller than a pencil, were transported to Stowe, Pennsylvania to be cleaned and repaired by specialists at Patrick J. Murphy & Associates, Inc.[51] On January 30, 2005, University president Fr. Joseph A. Panuska, S.J., celebrated the restoration by blessing the organ, which was then heard for the first time in decades as concert organist Thomas Murray performed selections by Vivaldi, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Elgar.[50]

The Houlihan-McLean Center also has a bell tower which holds a large bell, forged in 1883 by the Buckeye Bell Foundry and Van Duzen and Tift, Cincinnati, Ohio and installed by the Immanuel Baptist congregation in the church when the Church moved into the current Houlihan-McLean Center from its former location.[47] The bell's inscription reads, "Presented by the Choir in Memory of Mrs. C. F. Whittemore, Who Died July 7, 1883."[47] In 1991, the University installed an electronic bell ringer, programmed to ring the bell every hour using a motor and hammer manufactured in England.[47]

The building is named for Atty. Daniel J. Houlihan and Prof. John P. McLean, two dedicated, longtime faculty members at the University. A former student of theirs was the benefactor whose contribution, made in their honor, enabled the University to acquire the structure in 1986.[46]

The Houlihan McLean Center is one of three churches the University acquired and preserved during the 1980s once their congregations were no longer able to maintain the buildings. In 1985, the University converted the former Assembly of God Church at 419 Monroe Avenue into Rev. Joseph A. Rock, S.J., Hall. It currently houses Madonna Della Strada Chapel, the principal campus setting for University liturgies, as well as the University’s Military Science department and ROTC program. In 1986, the University acquired the Immanuel Baptist Church at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Mulberry Street. Currently, it houses the University’s Performance Music Programs. The University acquired the former John Raymond Memorial Church, Madison Avenue and Vine Street, in 1987. It now serves as the Smurfit Arts Center, which houses studio space for the University’s Fine Arts department. The University’s efforts were cited in a 1988 edition of “Inspired,” a bi-monthly publication devoted to the preservation of historic religious buildings.[47]

Currently, the Houlihan-McLean Center continues to serve as the home for the Performance Music Programs at the University.

Hyland Hall

Completed in 1987, Kathryn and Bernard Hyland Hall is a four-story facility which contains sixteen classrooms and a 180-seat tiered lecture hall,[52] in addition to a cafe and lounge. Hyland Hall also housed the University’s bookstore until it was moved to the DeNaples Center in 2008. The site of Hyland Hall was previously occupied by Lackawanna College, prior to its move to 901 Prospect Avenue.[53] Since 2001, Hyland has also been home to the University's Hope Horn Art Gallery.[54] Before moving to Hyland, the University’s Art Gallery had been located in The Gallery, which was demolished in 2001. Hyland’s exhibit space is roughly double the size of the old art gallery with a wall of windows, a cathedral ceiling, and moveable walls to enhance the ambiance of the environment as well as an adjoining workshop and classroom space for lectures and workshops.[55] In 2004, the Art Gallery was named in honor of Hope Horn, a vibrant force in the arts community of Scranton who was a prolific painter and sculptor who bequeathed her estate to the University of Scranton to support art and music education at her death.[56] Currently, it mostly houses classes for the Departments of Political Science, Sociology, Criminal Justice, and World Languages and Cultures.

Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine

Completed in August 1996, the Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine was funded by a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense.[57] The 1,500 square-foot facility houses research laboratories, offices, and the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute.[57] The IMBM is dedicated to the molecular biological research, chiefly in the field of proteomics, or the study of the full set of proteins encoded by a genome.[58] The building was created to speed up the process of finding and treating viral diseases and cancer as well as to be able to engineer a patient’s immune system to avoid these diseases and to develop DNA probes that could possibly seek out a defective gene that is responsible for cancer.[57] The laboratories are equipped with technologically advanced systems used in the medical research field and each lab was designed for a specific purpose, such as genetic engineering, sequencing of DNA, and fluorescent microscopy.[59] It contains the most advanced proteomics laboratory in the region.[58] Additionally, the Institute has the capability to handle Level 3 pathogens.[59]

Loyola Science Center

Completed in 2011, the Loyola Science Center, also known as the Unified Science Center, houses the University’s Biology, Chemistry, Computing Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics/Electrical Engineering departments as well as any programs currently associated with these departments.[60] In addition, it is designed to serve as a center for collaborative learning for all members of the campus and the community and to create a physical space that would deepen the University’s culture of engagement.[61] Father Quinn, the University’s President, remarked that the Center serves as the “academic heart of campus,” as a “place of research, scholarship, teaching and discovery, a place to find God in all things.”[62] Its design promotes effective intellectual collisions between and among faculty, both major and non-major students, and members of the community.[63]

The center includes a nearly 150,000-square-foot, four-story new structure on what was previously a parking lot along Monroe Avenue and Ridge Row which has been seamlessly integrated into nearly 50,000 square feet of renovated space in the Harper McGinnis Wing of St. Thomas Hall, which was built in 1987 to house the physics and electrical engineering departments.[60] The Harper-McGinnis Wing of St. Thomas Hall was extensively renovated in 2012 while the Science Center was being built. It now houses the departments of Theology and Religious Studies, Communication, Philosophy, History as well as the office of LA/WS, or Latin American and Women’s Studies, and the University’s radio station, 99.5 WUSR. Finally, the design includes a new entrance into St. Thomas Hall and the science center from the Commons.[60] The center’s layout provides a physical space that encourages integration among the traditional science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, as well as the humanities, to drive the development of new teaching methods and engage students in practices that will prepare them for future challenges. The building’s dynamic, modern design includes inviting spaces for student/faculty collaboration, visible glass-walled laboratories and the efficiencies of using shared instrumentation.[60] There are small “neighborhoods” of faculty offices, student learning spaces, laboratories and classrooms. The application of the concept is evident from the exterior elevations which show the Science Center not as a single massive form, but rather, three smaller substructures.[63]

The Loyola Science Center contains 34 teaching and research laboratories, a rooftop greenhouse for teaching and research, a 180-seat lecture hall for symposia and seminars, numerous group study and research areas, 22 classrooms, 80 offices, a multi-story atrium, and a vivarium.[63] Additionally, the second floor of the Harper-McGinnis wing contains an area which highlights student, faculty, and community work and engages visitors.[64] It contains a large television which displays the University Twitter feeds, the science center’s energy usage, and videos featuring student and faculty research; glass exhibits which feature research projects and science displays; and aquaria which houses fish for student study from a variety of different ecosystems.[64] The Loyola Science Center also contains Bleeker Street, a coffee shop and cafe. The Center was designed to meet the Silver standard for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, though it has not gone through the certification process.[65]

The $85 million, nearly 200,000-square foot building is the largest capital project in the history of the Jesuit university and the culmination of more than 15 years of planning and preparation.[62] After the Science Education Committee created the vision that would eventually become the Loyola Science Center in the fall of 1998, it took two years to complete a paper about the vision.[66] After seven years of programming meetings, the University broke ground May 14, 2009 for the facility’s construction.[66]

The Loyola Science Center was dedicated on September 28, 2012. The Center was named in honor of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus. Additionally, three wings inside the building have been named to honor the contributions and service of members of the University of Scranton community.[66] On November 11, 2011, the first wing was dedicated as McDonald Hall.[66] Herbert McDonald served as president of the staff and chairman of the department of surgery at Hahnemann Hospital, now known as the Geisinger Community Medical Center of Scranton, and his wife Mary McDonald served on the University’s Board of Trustees and vice chair from 1989-1992.[66] Milani Hall was dedicated on March 24, 2012, in honor of Dr. Frank Milani '55, as a recognition of his family’s continued support of the University after he received his Bachelor of Science in biology from the University in 1955.[66] In recognition of Carl J. Keuhner and JoAnne M. Keuhner, Keuhner Hall was dedicated on August 5, 2012.[66] Carl Kuehner served on the Board of Trustees from 2003-2009 as well as chairman of the board from 2007-2009.[66] The fourth wing, Harper-McGinnis Hall, located in St. Thomas Hall, was built and dedicated in 1987 in recognition of physics professors Joseph P. Harper, Ph.D., the chairman of the physics department, and Eugene A. McGinnis, Ph.D, a long-time physics professor at the University.[67] Together, these men contributed more than 70 years of teaching service to The University.[66]

In 1968, the University of Scranton purchased the land where Loyola Science Center stands from the Scranton Redevelopment Authority for $25,221.60 as part of the city’s urban renewal project.[68] The 42,007 square foot lot, located at the eastern corner of Monroe Avenue and Ridge Row, had previously been occupied by Auto Express Company. From the time of its purchase until construction began on the Loyola Science Center, the site served as a parking lot with sidewalks, landscaping, and lighting.[69]

Loyola Hall of Science

Loyola Hall was constructed in 1956, as part of a major campus expansion. Built at a cost of $1,205,000, the reinforced concrete structure featured a porcelain enameled steel "skin" brickwork as well as aluminum mullions along its exterior. At the time of its opening, the ground floor was dedicated to engineering, the first floor to physics, the second floor to biology, and the third floor to chemistry.[70] The penthouse housed the University's radio station (WUSV) and its equipment,[71] including a steel radio tower, which was subsequently dismantled in 1974.[72] When the building was first constructed, its ultra modern design, technologically advanced features, and ability to house all of the science departments in one building made it a vital part of the University of Scranton’s campus. Before the construction of Loyola Hall, engineering students had been forced to go elsewhere for the final two years of their education because the University lacked the proper equipment to teach them.[71]

As part of the “Second Cornerstone” campaign, a fifteen million dollar expansion and improvement project, the University extensively renovated Loyola Hall in 1987. In the $2,750,000 expansion of Loyola Hall, the existing building was remodeled and an expansion towards Monroe Avenue was added, in order to accommodate the growing student body and the expanding science programs.[73] An additional floor and a twenty-foot extension of Loyola’s east wall expanded the floor space of the facility by more than 14,000 feet. The new space provided room for additional chemistry laboratories, classrooms, research areas, and computer facilities for faculty and students.[74]

With the construction of the Loyola Science Center in 2011, Loyola Hall was functionally superseded.[75] The science departments, classrooms, and laboratories formerly housed in Loyola Hall were moved to the more modern, more technologically advanced, more energy-efficient, and safer The Loyola Science Center.[75] According to James Devers, Assistant Vice President for Facilities Operations, “the overall end result for Old Loyola as part of the master plan is to demolish the building and open up the space in front of the Estate to what it would have looked like in 1871.”[75] However, Loyola Hall has not yet been demolished, as it serves as “swing space,” or a housing site for classes or offices whose buildings are undergoing renovations.[75] Most recently, the building provided housing for the Panuska College of Professional Studies Academic Advising Center and the departments of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy, all displaced by the demolition of Leahy Hall and the construction of the new Center for Rehabilitation Education.[75]

The McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts

McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts.

The McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts was constructed in 1992 on the former site of the Lackawanna County Juvenile Center. Home to the University's English & Theatre department’s classrooms, offices, labs, meeting spaces, and a black box studio theatre,[76] the McDade Center also houses the 300-seat Royal Theater where the University Players stage their productions.[77] The building's other features include a computer writing and instructions lab, a seminar room, a small screening room for film classes and an office for Esprit, the University's Review of Arts and Letters.[77] Additionally, the building contains stained glass in the lobby and an engraved quotation above the main entrance.[77]

The building's exterior features "The Doorway to the Soul," a steel and wire sculpture by Pennsylvania artist Lisa Fedon.[78] “The Doorway” consists of 18 framed images fabricated variously of steel plate, perforated steel, round steel bars and wire cloth which each represent experiences in the human journey towards truth while the grid itself represented a matrix of inner-connectedness.[78] The individual panels within the grid are titled: The Thinker; Reaching Out To My Self; Natural and Curious Yearning of a Child; Eternal Bridge; Acceptance; A State of Calm, Peace, Knowing; Trials and Tribulation/The Ascent; The Void/God; The Writer; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Hope/Prayer; Christ; The Climb/The Worn Steps/The Invitation to Enter; The Written Word; Unconditional Love and Caring/Innocence of Children; The Self Exposed.[78] The two external panels are: The Self Observing and The Only Begotten Son.[78] Upon completion of the work, Panuska congratulated Fedon for her "artistic insight and great sensitivity in fulfilling the terms of the commission."[78] He noted that in addition to bringing greater beauty to the campus, the works of art added to the campus in recent years are intended to help express the meaning and mission of the University to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors.[78] The commissioned work was a gift of Patrick J. and Marie Connors Roche, generous benefactors of the University and the namesakes of the University’s Wellness Center.[78]

At the dedication ceremony in 1993, the building was named in honor of the Hon. Joseph M. McDade because of “his continuous support of this area and of the University and its academic mission,” Rev. Panuska noted.[77]

The McDade Center location was once the site of Crawford House, the 1898 Tudor Revival home of coal operator, baron, and Peoples Coal Company owner James L. Crawford.[79] In 1992, several years after Crawford’s wife passed away, Lackawanna County purchased the estate to serve as the Juvenile Detention Center.[79] In 1989, after four years of negotiations, the University of Scranton acquired Crawford House.[80] Originally, the University planned to renovate and restore the property, where it would relocate the Admissions and Financial Aid offices as well as a combinations switchboard and a visitors area.[80] However, the University discovered that the interior damage was too severe and that it would not be economically feasible to renovate it.[81] The University’s decision to demolish the Crawford House ignited fierce controversy because of strong opposition from local historical organizations, such as the Lackawanna Historical Society, the State Historic Preservation Office, and the Architectural Heritage Association who believed the house “represent[ed] the lifestyle of a coal baron of the late nineteenth century,” and was therefore significant for Scranton, a city founded on coal.[81] In an attempt to compromise with those upset by the potential demolition of Crawford House, the University proposed that the building be relocated in order to preserve its historical aspects but this too proved too costly so Crawford House was demolished in 1991. Rather than using the site for administrative offices as originally planned, the University decided to build the Instructional Arts Facility which would be home to the English and Theater departments, as the need for performing arts space was identified back in 1983.[76] The Crawford House was subsequently delisted from the National Register in 1992.

McGurrin Hall

Completed in 1998, McGurrin Hall houses many of the departments in the J.A. Panuska College of Professional Studies, including Education, Nursing, Counseling and Human Services, and Health Administration and Human Resources.[82] The departments of Exercise Science, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy, also part of the Panuska College, are housed in the adjacent Center for Rehabilitation Education, also known as Edward R. Leahy Jr. Hall. McGurrin's four stories include classrooms, laboratories, teaching instruction labs, and counseling suites as well as the Panuska College of Professional Studies’ advising center and administration offices.[83] When it was built, McGurrin was outfitted with the latest, most advanced technology in its labs and media-based equipment to deal with instruction in electronic media.[83]

McGurrin Hall is named in honor of Mary Eileen Patricia McGurrin, R.N., M.S.N., a former student at the University of Scranton and the daughter of Kathleen Hyland McGurrin and the late John F. McGurrin Sr. Ms. McGurrin was an honors student at Abington Heights High School, earned her bachelor and master’s degrees in nursing from Thomas Jefferson College of Allied Health Services in Philadelphia.[84] A member of the American Nurses Association, she was a registered nurse who served on the staff of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia following completion of her training.[85] She died of cancer in 1995 at the age of thirty-nine. In loving memory of his niece, McGurrin’s uncle, Bernard V. Hyland, M.D., made a significant contribution to the Campaign for Scranton, which helped finance the building named in her memory.[84] Dr. Hyland hoped that all of the students who pass through the doors of McGurrin Hall will be filled with the same spirit of selfless service animated by Mary Eileen.[84] University President Rev. McShane noted that “it’s really appropriate and magnificent that the home of a professional studies is named for a nurse.”[85]

Leahy Community Health & Family Center

In 2003, the University of Scranton opened the Leahy Community Health & Family Center, which is located on the bottom floor of McGurrin Hall. The Leahy Community Health & Family Center serves the dual purpose of identifying and meeting the health and wellness needs of underserved individuals in the greater Scranton community while providing a place where faculty guide students in a practical educational experience.[86] Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from the Panuska College of Professional Studies, along with Pennsylvania licensed staff members, work together to fill gaps in health, wellness, and educational services offered to marginalized and underserved populations.[87] The Center provides a multitude of services to those with special needs, children and families, senior citizens, the homeless, and the uninsured, which include the University of Success, the Alice V. Leahy Food and Clothing Pantry, the Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Center Clinic, “Peacemakers After School,” and “Growing Stronger.”[86] The University of Success is a pre-college program designed to provide academic, social, and cultural enrichment and experiences to high school students. The ultimate goal of this program is to assist participating students to successfully complete high school and gain entrance into a college or university.[86] The Alice V. Leahy Food and Clothing Pantry is a student-run effort to provide homeless and at-risk people with clean, decent clothing and the most basic of human needs, food.[86] The Clinic provides free "non-emergency" health care to uninsured Lackawanna County residents who may otherwise forego health care due to cost or seek care in hospital emergency rooms.[88] The Clinic also provides physical therapy and counseling services. “Peacemakers After School” is program for children between the ages of 9 and 13 and “Growing Stronger” is a program for area senior citizens.[86] The Leahy Community Health & Family Center also offers numerous educational programs, health fairs and special clinics throughout the year. The Center includes a reception area, administrative offices, interview rooms with observation and closed circuit video capabilities, examination rooms, disabled access and restrooms, and a large group activity/conference area as well as sophisticated equipment as the region’s only motion analysis system, capable of analyzing movement and motor activity of people from infancy to advanced age.[87]

The Leahy Community Health & Family Center “blends so completely the unique quality of the University of Scranton with [its] Jesuit mission,” because it “provides a place for research, scholarship and practical experience for faculty and students alike while responding to the needs of children in our region who have special needs,” as University President Rev. McShane remarked.[87] It embodies the Jesuit ideals of faith in action and serving others.

The Center is named for Edward J. Leahy, the late son of generous benefactors Patricia and Edward R. Leahy who passed away at the age of eight due to his significant disabilities.[87] The Center represents the Leahy’s tradition of donating to support individuals with disabilities both indirectly through funding research and directly through assistance and service programs.[87] In memory of Edward, the Leahys have “tried to engage in a continuous celebration of his life by helping others, particularly children, with special needs, but without sufficient resources to address those needs.”[87] Mr. Leahy noted that the Center “is a continuation of that celebration of Edward’s life, and it stands as proof that the youngest and the smallest among us can make a real difference.”[87]

O'Hara Hall

It is named for Dr. Frank O'Hara, who was often referred to as "Mr. University." Dr. O'Hara was a longtime administrator, serving as director of alumni relations and registrar, and briefly in 1942 as Acting President. The building houses the offices for the College of Graduate and Continuing Education as well as other university administrative offices, including Public Relations, Development, Institutional Advancement, and Alumni Relations. Some programs for the College of Arts and Science are also based in O'Hara Hall, including the Department of Political Science, World Languages and Cultures, Sociology, and Criminal Justice as well as the Language Learning Center. The building underwent major renovations in 2000 and 2001.

St. Thomas Hall

It was built in 1962 and dedicated on September 16, 1962. Its architect was Robert P. Moran of the class of 1925. The building houses many major administrative offices, such as Financial Aid, the Bursar and the Registrar. It is also home to the College of Arts and Sciences and its Advising Center, and many departments have offices and classes in St. Thomas, including Communications, Physics, Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Computer Science, and History. Two wings have been added: the Harper-McGuiness Wing, location of many administrative offices, and the Communications wing, home to the Communications Department and facilities for the University's radio and television productions. It also houses the University's Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE), a free tutoring service, and a writing assistance center. St. Thomas is slated for major renovations as part of the construction of the new Unified Science Center.

The Smurfit Arts Center

In January 1987, the University of Scranton under Rev. Panuska purchased the former John Raymond Memorial Church, Universalist, at Madison Avenue and Vine Street for $125,000.[89] Built in 1906, the Romanesque building contains one of the tallest bell towers in Scranton.[90] The main floor of the small but remarkably designed structure, which contains 7,200 square feet of floor space, is used as a studio-art facility for the Fine Arts program.[89] The basement is used for the department’s offices and classrooms.[89] During the renovations of the building, the University had to remove the stain glass windows and replace them with clear glass to provide the area with natural lighting.[89] The two stained glass windows from the Smurfit Arts Center, which were crafted by the Tiffany Glass Company, were moved to be displayed in Hyland Hall.[90] The Smurfit Arts Center was named for Michael W. J. Smurfit H'85, a generous Irish benefactor whose two sons, Anthony and Michael, attended the University of Scranton. Smurfit was the chairman and chief executive officer of Jefferson Smurfit Group, Ltd., a multinational corporation with headquarters in Dublin, IReland; Alton, Illinois; and New York City.[91]

The Smurfit Arts Center is one of three churches the University acquired and preserved during the 1980s once their congregations were no longer able to maintain the buildings. In 1985, the University converted the former Assembly of God Church at 419 Monroe Avenue into Rev. Joseph A. Rock, S.J., Hall. It currently houses Madonna Della Strada Chapel, the principal campus setting for University liturgies, as well as the University’s Military Science department and ROTC program. In 1986, the University acquired the Immanuel Baptist Church at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Mulberry Street. Currently, it houses the University’s Performance Music Programs. The University acquired the former John Raymond Memorial Church, Madison Avenue and Vine Street, in 1987. It now serves as the Smurfit Arts Center, which houses studio space for the University’s Fine Arts department. The University’s efforts were cited in a 1988 edition of “Inspired,” a bi-monthly publication devoted to the preservation of historic religious buildings.[47]

Athletic Facilities

Fitzpatrick Field

In 1984, the University completed construction on its very first athletic field in the school’s ninety-six history,[92] which began in 1982 after the University acquired the land from the Scranton Redevelopment Authority.[93] The land had previously been used as a rail yard for the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad.[94] The facility was designed as a multi-sports complex, complete with a regulation-size field for men’s and women’s soccer which also can be used for other sports such as softball, lacrosse, field hockey, and intramural athletics.[92] It also has bleachers which can seat 350 people, an electronic scoreboard, and a maintenance building containing restrooms, a storage area, and a parking lot.[92] Father Panuska noted that the building of the field was important because it fosters “the development of a total learning environment, an environment which supports a balanced life.”[92]

The University's Board of Trustees named the field in honor of Rev. John J. Fitzpatrick, S.J., a long-time booster of the University's athletic programs and dedicated member of the University community for twenty-two years.[95] Rev. Fitzpatrick founded the club football team (which played between 1967-1978) and offered pre-game prayers at many of the Royals' sporting events.[95] A dedication plaque on the field reads: "Because he is an exemplary priest, long dedicated to the students of the University, and especially to its student athletes, this first athletic field of the University of Scranton is lovingly dedicated to a living proof that 'Reaching for the rising sun is surely worth the cost.'"[95]

In 1997, a re-dedication ceremony celebrated the installation of new artificial turf and improved lighting for the field.[94] Currently, Fitzpatrick Field remains the University’s primary outdoor athletic facility and is used for the Royal’s varsity soccer, field hockey, and lacrosse teams. The field is also used for intramural flag football, ultimate frisbee, soccer, and field hockey.

Long Center

Completed in 1967, the John J. Long Center contained the University’s first indoor athletic facilities, as well as instructional areas for physical education. The Long Center is built into the slope of Linden Street, providing a single level on Linden Street and a three-story end of the building, overlooking Ridge Row. The Long Center was built to enable the University to institute an academic program in physical education and provide a space for student assemblies, convocations, group meetings, and other large gatherings.[96] It was also created to give greater emphasis to intramural athletics and improve the school’s intercollegiate athletics.[97]

At the time of its construction, the top floor featured a large entrance foyer and a gymnasium, complete with movable bleacher seats that could accommodate up to 4,500 people. The gymnasium contained three basketball courts, complete with a folding curtain in order to separate the gym, allowing multiple games or gym classes the occur at the same time.[98] It also contained two ticket rooms, court rooms and rest rooms, a sound control room, offices for the director and assistants of the physical education program, an equipment room, and storage rooms.[98] The second floor housed locker room facilities, rest rooms, and showers, in addition to saunas, whirpool baths, and a sun room.[98] It also had a training room, small offices for athletic coaches, a weight room, and an all-purpose room.[98] The bottom floor contained a wrestling room, a mechanical room, and laundry facilities.[98]

The Long Center was built on land, spanning 4.93 acres, that the University purchased from the Scranton Redevelopment Authority for $96,843, as part of the city’s urban renewal project.[99] Before handing over the title to the University, the Scranton Redevelopment Authority cleared the lot, located at the eastern corner of Linden Street and Catlin Court, by demolishing several existing structures.[100]

In order to pay for the $1.8 million facility, the University of Scranton acquired a $592,110 grant through the Higher Education Facilities Act and took out a $815,000 federal loan, made possible by the support of Congressman Joseph M. McDade and U.S. Senator Joseph Clark.[101] The University shouldered the remaining costs.

In 2001, excavation under the Long Center provided a new home for the Department of Exercise Science and Sport. The additional 10,000 square feet of space accommodated offices, classrooms, a fitness assessment center, and laboratories for sport biomechanics, body composition, cardio-metabolic analysis, biochemistry, and muscular skeletal fitness. However, with the completion of the Center of Rehabilitation Education (also known as Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Hall) in 2015, the Exercise Science Department relocated from the Long Center into the new building.

After its completion in 1967, the University dedicated the athletic facility in honor of its former President, John J. Long, S.J. who served the University in that position from 1953 until 1963, to commemorate his dedication and tremendous contributions to the University. After he stepped down from the presidency, Fr. Long continued to serve the University in other positions, including Assistant to the President, Founder and Moderator of the Alumni Society, and Vice President for Administrative Affairs.[102][103] During his tenure as President, he led the University in its first major building campaign. Starting in 1956, the campus was greatly expanded and modernized through the construction of fifteen new buildings, which included the Loyola Hall of Science, 10 student residence halls, St. Thomas Hall, Alumni Memorial Hall (formerly known as the Alumni Memorial Library) and Gunster Memorial Student Center (formerly known as the Student Union Building, and was demolished in 2008) as well as the Long Center.[104] He successfully led the University through two fundraising drives in order to finance these building projects, which also had the effect of incorporating the University into the Scranton community.[103]

Byron Recreation Complex

In 1985, the University began construction on its newest building, a physical education and recreation complex.[105] Completed in 1986, the William J. Byron, S.J. Recreation Complex is a three-level structure which connects to the Long Center, the facility for intercollegiate athletics.[106] The facility contains three multi-use courts for basketball, volleyball, tennis, and one-wall handball as well as a one-tenth mile indoor running track, a six-lane Olympic-sized swimming pool complete with diving boards and an electronic scoreboard, four 4-wall racquetball courts, a gallery which overlooks the swimming pool and the racquetball courts, two different aerobics/dance rooms, men’s and women’s locker rooms, saunas, and steam rooms.[107] Panuska spoke about the importance of the new recreation complex, stating that it would help the University offer more “health-related activities” and to serve the recreational needs of the student body, including the intramural program.[106] Panuska also noted that naming this facility for Fr. Byron, the president of the University of Scranton from 1975 until 1982, “provides us with a marvelous opportunity to thank him for his leadership at the University and in the region.”[106]

Additional Buildings and Spaces

Adlin Building

Located at 600 Linden Street and Adams Avenue, the Adlin Building was acquired by the University in 2012 from Adlin Building Partnership.[108] Currently, the Adlin Building houses the University’s Small Business Development Center, which provides educational programs and free, confidential consulting services to those starting and growing small businesses in the Scranton area,[109] and Division of External Affairs, which handles some functions of undergraduate and graduate admissions, news and media relations, marketing communications, printing and mailing services, community and government relations.[110]

Campion Hall

Campion Hall, opened in 1987,[111] is the University’s residence building for the Jesuit community. The faculty, named in honor of Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., a 16th century Jesuit pastor and scholar who was martyred in England during the persecutions of Roman Catholics for defending his faith,[112] provides living and working accommodations for thirty Jesuits.[113] The two-story building features thirty-one bedrooms, an interior garden, an office, kitchen and dining facilities, and a chapel in addition to a flexible design with four discrete sections, such that the building could adapt to the changing needs of the Jesuit Community at the University.[114] Before the construction of Campion Hall, the primary residence for the Jesuits at Scranton was the Estate, the former Scranton family residence which was given to the University by the family in 1941,[115] which proved unable to meet their needs, as it only provided living accommodations for seventeen of the University’s thirty-six Jesuits in the 1980s.[116] The building of Campion Hall, estimated at $1.7 million, was financed entirely by the University’s Jesuit community.[115] Currently, Campion Hall provides housing for Jesuits who teach or hold administrative positions at the University of Scranton or at Scranton Preparatory School, a local Jesuit high school.[44]

The Estate

It is the former home of the William Scranton family designed by noted architect Russell Sturgis has housed the Admissions Office, Office of Graduate Admissions, and the Admissions Visitors Center since early 2009. The building originally served the University as residence for the Jesuit community, and later as office space and formal dining areas.

Mosque

In 1996, the University community renovated a University-owned house at 317 North Webster Avenue into the Campus Mosque as a gift to the Muslim community of Scranton.[117] The University established the campus mosque in response to the growing need for a local mosque for the growing number of Muslim students, as there had not previously been any mosques in the city of Scranton.[117] Before the University created the mosque on its campus, the closest one had been in Wilkes-Barre, which had made it difficult for many Muslim students and faculty members to worship, as they were forced to recite prayers several times a day in their own apartments or dorms.[117] The Scranton Muslim community stated that “It [was] a spiritually uplifting experience to have our own mosque on campus.”[117] The mosque reflects the growing diversity of the University’s student body and the University’s commitment to meeting the spiritual needs of all members of the University community.[117]

The Mosque contained two large, spacious rooms as the women’s and men’s prayer rooms as well as a library housing countless reference books on the history of Islam and the Muslim religion, including translations of the interpretations of the Koran.[118] The Mosque was also equipped with an upstairs apartment where two members of the Muslim Student Association lived and served as caretakers of the facility.

In 2007, the Mosque, along with several other properties, was razed in order to establish a site for the sophomore residence, Condron Hall.[119] The University then purchased and renovated a house at 306 Taylor Avenue for use as the new mosque, which is open to the public for prayer and reflection.

Parking and Public Safety Pavilion

Completed in 1995, the Parking and Public Safety Pavilion accommodates 510 cars in its five stories, with one floor below ground, one floor at ground level, and three above ground.[120] It was constructed to expand the University’s on-campus parking capacity in order to meet the community’s need for additional places to park, with designated areas for students, faculty, staff, and guests.[121] Additionally, the Parking Garage contains the offices of the University's Police and the Offices of Parking Services.[120] The structure, which occupies 163,000 square feet, is located on the corner of Mulberry Street and Monroe Avenue.[120] The exterior complements the adjacent McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts by mirroring its design. The Monroe Avenue facade is also covered by a series of topiary planting screens on which climbing vines have grown.

Roche Wellness Center

The Roche Wellness Center, located at the corner of Mulberry Street and North Webster Avenue, was acquired by the University in 1992 and opened for student use in 1996. Originally built in 1986 by pharmacist Alex Hazzouri, the Wellness Center previously housed Hazzouri’s pharmacy and drugstore as well as a restaurant named Babe’s Place.[122] In 1989, Alex Hazzouri was arrested and arraigned on drug-trafficking charges,[123] and his pharmacy was closed indefinitely, as the government seized the building.[124] After the investigation was closed, the government auctioned off the building in 1992.[125] It was purchased by the University for $500,000.[126] Beginning on August 2, 1993, the building served as a home to the Scranton Police Department's Hill Section precinct station.[122] A new Student Health and Wellness Center was soon moved in, along with the University's Drug and Alcohol Information Center and Educators (DICE) Office.[122] In 1996, the Roche Wellness Center opened, housing the Student Health Services department.[122] The building holds a reception area, four exam rooms, a laboratory, an assessment room, an observation room, and storage space.[122]

Rock Hall

On December 15, 1983, the University of Scranton purchased the Assembly of God Church from the Reformed Episcopalian congregation who could no longer properly maintain the facility as the costs and utilities were too high.[127] Once it was acquired by the University. the Assembly of God Church was renamed to Rock Hall to honor the late Rev. Joseph A. Rock, S.J., a well-known and respected educator at the University of Scranton.[128] The University’s President, Rev. Panuska, noted that “the growth of the university, both in terms of the beauty of its campus and the achievements of its students, was in no small measure due to the efforts of Father Rock,” as “his contributions to the university as a teacher, administrator, counselor, and friend were exceptional.”[128] Originally, the University intended to use the first floor of the facility for administrative offices which had previously occupied space in St. Thomas and Jefferson Halls, including the Department of Central Services, the Maintenance Department, and the Security Department [129] while the assembly area of the new hall was supposed to provide a needed alternative for smaller social and cultural affairs, including lectures, dinners, and dances, now held in the over-scheduled Jefferson and Eagen Auditoriums.[128] During the renovations of Rock Hall, however, the need for a new chapel was identified, as the St. Ignatius chapel in St. Thomas Hall did not provide adequate seating and contained structural limitations which were not conducive to acoustics or the aesthetics of the liturgies.[130] Named Madonna della Strada, or "Our Lady of the Way," in reference to an image of the Virgin Mary enshrined in the Church of the Gesu in Rome, the Chapel serves as the primary site for the university’s major liturgical services, including the regular Sunday masses.[130] Rev. Panuska commented that the building and chapel are important additions to the school, particularly because the chapel “provides the university and the surrounding community with a beautiful setting for liturgical celebrations.”[130] The chapel was consecrated on February 15, 1985, by Bishop James C. Timlin, D.D. Currently, the first floor of Rock Hall is the home of the University's Military Science department and ROTC program.[131]

Rock Hall is one of three churches the University acquired and preserved during the 1980s once their congregations were no longer able to maintain the buildings. In 1985, the University converted the former Assembly of God Church at 419 Monroe Avenue into Rev. Joseph A. Rock, S.J., Hall. It currently houses Madonna Della Strada Chapel, the principal campus setting for University liturgies, as well as the University’s Military Science department and ROTC program. In 1986, the University acquired the Immanuel Baptist Church at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Mulberry Street. Currently, it houses the University’s Performance Music Programs. The University acquired the former John Raymond Memorial Church, Madison Avenue and Vine Street, in 1987. It now serves as the Smurfit Arts Center, which houses studio space for the University’s Fine Arts department. The University’s efforts were cited in a 1988 edition of “Inspired,” a bi-monthly publication devoted to the preservation of historic religious buildings.[47]

Scranton Hall

It currently houses the Office of the President. When the Scranton family occupied the Estate, the building served as a stable or carriage house.

Retreat Center at Chapman Lake

The site originally had one old retreat house. The old house featured several bedrooms upstairs, each with bunkbeds, used by students on retreats. There was a small chapel on the second floor. There was a main room with a fireplace, a kitchen, and dining area featuring some very large, comfortable old couches downstairs. The original building was eventually closed in 2004 because of safety concerns.

In 1999 a second retreat and conference center was completed at Chapman Lake. It was designed by Fr. Thomas "Bat" Masterson, S.J. The new building featured a large dining room, a meeting room nicknamed the Lake Room and five or six "small group rooms" to be used on some of the University's popular retreat programs. There are several floors of shared bedrooms upstairs with private bathrooms.

A groundbreaking ceremony for an addition to the 1999 building was held in the fall of 2005. The addition includes bedrooms, meeting rooms and a chapel. It was completed in the fall of 2006.

Retreats offered at Chapman Lake are usually offered and run by staff and students from the University of Scranton's Office of University Ministries. They are very popular with the student body and are usually held several times a year, with around 40 students participating at a time. The Freshman Retreat and the Search Retreats are among the most popular and are held multiple times each semester. The Senior Retreat is usually held once a year during the Spring Semester for graduating seniors.

Residence Halls

Freshman Dorms

Lavis Hall, Gannon Hall, McCormick Hall and the Freshman Patio set up for an event later that evening.

First-year students are offered traditional double rooms that share a community restroom. All freshmen dorms are located near the center of the University’s campus. Freshmen housing does not have air-conditioned or carpeted rooms. Each building has washers and dryers on the first floor for student use as well as light housekeeping services provided to all rooms and bathrooms.

Sophomore Dorms

Sophomore students are offered suite-style housing, in which two double rooms share a shower and toilet, with each room having its own sink. Sophomore housing is air conditioned. All of the buildings have kitchens. Each building has washers and dryers on the first floor for student use as well as light housekeeping services provided to all rooms and bathrooms. The three buildings are located together in a cluster on the University’s campus to replicate the close housing arrangement experienced by first-year residential students.[149]

Upperclassmen and Graduate Housing

Madison Square Apartments, including the Dexter Hanley House.

Upperclass and graduate students are offered apartments and houses.

Landmarks and Campus Art

Former University Buildings and Spaces

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