Great Structures

USU's Old Main and the Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall were featured in the Salt Lake Tribune on a list of Utah's best architecturally designed buildings. Old Main was designed by Charles Thompson and Carl Schaub in 1889, and the Peformance Hall was designed by Sasaki and Associates with Gould Evans in 2005

To read the Salt Lake Tribune article, visit
http://www.usu.edu/ust/pdf/2007/april/itn04300741.pdf.

Manon Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Peformance Hall

The Performance Hall is a new 20,000-square-foot building serving USU, the Cache Valley community and the Intermountain region. A gift from Manon and Kathryn, the venue features a 400-seat performance hall, a stage for up to 22 performers and a lobby with glass windows overlooking a plaza. The hall's intimate scale is ideal for small acoustical performances, including chamber music, vocal and instrumental concerts, recitals, readings and lectures. Manon and Kathryn's donation to build the performance hall was the largest individual gift in the university's history. This premier venue enriches the academic, professional and personal lives of USU students and faculty and will be a gathering place where art will touch life.

For more information, visit http://caineschool.usu.edu/.

Merrill Cazier Library

Campus Technology, a California-based publication, lists the 101 best practices in three areas - smart classrooms, connectivity and administrative information technology - and Utah State University tops the list in the smart classroom category. Make that Utah State University's "Smart Library" that tops the list of 101 best practices. Following Utah State University's number one ranking is Harvard at number two for enhancing classroom technology for teaching and learning.The Merrill-Cazier Library replaced the older Merrill Library, portions of which opened in 1930, with "modern" additions made in the 1970s. The new Merrill-Cazier Library opened with the 2005-06 academic year. It not only uses technology to retrieve information from the library catalog, but also retrieves the books themselves, Campus Technology notes in its acknowledgement.

For more information, visit http://library.usu.edu/.