The Bruner Hall of Science, the home of chemistry, biology, physics and health sciences programs, is being significantly renovated and will be complete by Fall 2009. Construction is currently ahead of schedule and under budget.
The 1960’s era Mary Morse Lecture Hall was razed to make way for a new 17,800 square-foot addition with a new planetarium (certain to become a new campus landmark) plus five new classrooms, an herbarium, and offices for Health Science programs. Much of the existing Bruner Hall was gutted and is being replaced with modern faculty research and teaching labs.
The budget for the project is $14,551,000, of which $14,000,000 was allocated from the Nebraska legislature. The remaining $551,000 came from a NASA grant for planetarium equipment.
In 2001, Bruner Hall underwent a maintenance renovation at a cost of approximately $6,400,000. This work upgraded the heating and cooling machinery, made ADA modifications to restrooms, installed a new elevator and repainted walls and ceilings.
In 2004, a second phase of renovation constructed a new greenhouse east of Bruner Hall . North of the new greenhouse facility, a new stand-alone research biology laboratory building was built in 2006.
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