The University of Hartford this week unveiled a new state-of-the-art learning and collaboration space at the Barney School of Business.
The 10,000-square-foot addition, and additional 13,000 square feet of renovated space at the university’s Auerbach Hall, cost $5 million and was completed over the course of a year.
The addition was designed by Glastonbury-based SLAM Collaborative and was built by Shawmut Design & Construction of Boston.
“The new addition provides ample opportunities for active learning and innovative teaching,” Barney Dean Amy Zeng said in a statement.
Zeng noted that the facility’s Lincoln trading room and analytics lab simulates the stock market, complete with 12 Bloomberg terminals, which enable students to learn how to analyze large financial datasets. Another two classrooms will support Barney’s expansion of project-based learning.
“This addition will allow us to be even more successful than we currently are in preparing our students to work in the fast-moving and fiercely competitive world of business,” Zeng said at an event marking the addition’s official opening earlier this week.
Donors to the project include:
- Stanley Black & Decker (Stanley Black & Decker Commons);
- People’s United Insurance Agency and John Byrnes (People’s United Insurance Professional Development Center);
- The Lincoln Foundation (David C. Lincoln Trading Room and Analytics Lab);
- The Hubbell Foundation, Hubbell Incorporated and President and CEO David Nord ’79 (Hubbell ConneCT and Hubbell Center for Innovation);
- The Ellsworth Ensign-Bickford Foundation (Ellsworth Ensign-Bickford Lobby);
- George A. LaCava Jr.’60 (George A. LaCava, Jr. ’60 Entrance);
- Conference Room given by Marilyn and Donald Allan Jr. ‘86;
- Mark A. Lieb M’77 and Kathy Lieb;
- Barbara and Richard H. Booth ’69, M’77, H ’05;
- Loïc de Kertanguy ’69;
- Karen Gibbs Orefice ’65 and Jerry A. Orefice ’66;
- South Entrance given Vantis Life Insurance Company, and retired CEO Pete Tedone and new CEO Ray Caucci;
- West Entrance Gerald ’64 and Patricia Vitkauskas.
