Besides providing a new visual signature to the campus, especially the dramatic structure facing the UNK Main Quadrangle and housing a spherical Planetarium "egg" behind its glass facade, Bruner Hall brings a whole new design to the instructional and research spaces for UNK students and faculty.
The original art mural on the facade of the building sets the tone for what is inside, including the basic scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology as the underpinnings of Health Sciences, with over 600 students in 19 programs, one of the largest areas of study at UNK.A UNK trademark is close faculty-student collaboration, especially in undergraduate research--research that frequently rivals research institutions in its quality and contribution to knowledge. And the degree of undergraduates' hands-on experiences in laboratories, with actual research projects, as partners with professors, is way ahead of their counterparts' ability to participate in research at most Research I institutions. Modern teaching and research labs have been designed for teaching science in the twenty-first century.
Other features of the building include: Nebraska’s only Foucault pendulum, a replica of the first experiment to dynamically prove that the Earth rotated on its axis; a roof observatory to give both community visitors and students opportunities to explore the sky with state-of-the-art telescopes and electronics; a living animal facility; and an herbarium.
With the dedication today of the new Bruner Hall of Science complex, UNK enters a new chapter in its long history of providing excellent science education to its students from Nebraska and around the country and world.
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