New Academic Building



Academic Center and
WPBX 88.3 FM Radio Studios



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Southampton Graduate Campus?s new academic center will greatly enhance the College?s strong academic program and accommodate present as well as future technological innovations in teaching and communications. This environment-sensitive and functional building was designed by Paul Broches, FAIA partner-in-charge at Mitchell/Giurgola Architects. This renowned firm prepared the master plan for the physical redevelopment of the 110-acre campus, which boasts resources including commanding views of Shinnecock Bay and the ocean beyond.

This new facility of some 38,000 square feet will not only enhance the College?s celebrated Marine and Environmental Sciences programs but will also strengthen the broad spectrum of its undergraduate and graduate offerings by relieving pressure throughout the institution for adequate teaching facilities. The academic center, to be located near Tuckahoe Road, will make it considerably easier to schedule both evening and daytime classes and a rich offering of outside speakers of interest to the College and broader community. This building will also provide offices and studios for the College?s National Public Radio station, WPBX, 88.3 FM. Construction of the new facility commenced in the Spring of 1997.

This distinguished new facility offers myriad opportunities to associate, honor or memorialize an individual in perpetuity while concurrently ensuring generations of able college students a first-rate teaching facility.

Laboratories


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While Southampton Graduate Campus is renowned for its excellent science programs, the laboratory space available to students and faculty must be improved. Currently, laboratories must be used as classrooms. To permit faculty appropriate time to set up laboratories for teaching purposes and for students to go beyond class time in pursuing either assigned or self-initiated experiments, the College will incorporate four state-of-the-art laboratories in the new building.

The laboratories, each accommodating 24 students, will be general purpose facilities used for beginning and upper level instruction, mainly in required courses for majors in the marine and environmental sciences. In particular, they will be used in microscopy, species examination and dissection, experimental biology and organic chemistry. The labs will be configured to permit easy access to storage, preparation and clean-up areas.

Diverse Biological Specimen Laboratory: $250,000
The specimen laboratory will be utilized by students learning invertebrate zoology, a cornerstone of marine biology, as well as anatomy and physiology. The laboratory will be built with special ventilation and equipment to make possible the examination of live or preserved specimens while avoiding potential contamination from the air in the laboratory.
Biology Laboratory: $250,000
The biology laboratory has been designed to enhance the teaching of microbiology, an increasingly important area for biology students that provides an essential foundation in this field. Exposure to an understanding of microbiological techniques enables researchers to carry out gene manipulation and transfer protocols. This laboratory will also be utilized for other microscopy courses such as developmental biology and the biology of plankton.
Chemistry Laboratory: $250,000
This laboratory will serve students in organic chemistry. It will contain state-of-the-art equipment, including essential safety hoods to protect students from potentially dangerous solvents and other volatile chemicals. This laboratory will enable the College to add to its curriculum a laboratory course in environmental chemistry that will introduce students to techniques for sampling and analyzing environmental areas of concern.
Computer Laboratory: $200,000
A new computer laboratory will be used for instruction in the application of computers in scientific and other disciplines. This laboratory will be utilized for the instruction of students in modeling oceanic and environmental systems, as well as in other computer application. It will further enhance the College?s emphasis on the utilization of computers, which are available at the unusually high ratio of one to each ten students.

Classrooms


Provost Bishop, Chancellor Sillerman and Mrs. Duke
As enrollment has grown, the College has been forced to convert dormitory and other space for use as classrooms. Even with the creative conversions and scheduling, the institution lacks adequate classrooms for its current student body. Additional classrooms will be essential to accommodate the anticipated increased enrollment. The new academic facility will include six classrooms and three seminar/conference rooms. Four of the new classrooms will accommodate up to 35 students, appropriate for the College?s traditional small class size and intimate teaching environment. The other two, each holding up to 50 students, will be appropriate for the much smaller number of medium-size classes at the College. The seminar rooms will each accommodate up to 20 people and further reflect the College?s intimate teaching environment -- the College?s ratio of faculty to students is currently an impressive one-to-sixteen.

To keep abreast of the explosion in electronic communication ability, the classrooms and seminar/ conference rooms will all be wired to facilitate student access to the "information highway" and to "distance learning" through the University?s fiber optic cable network. Emphasis will be placed on integrating computer and multi-media technology into classroom instruction.

Angier Biddle Duke Lecture Hall

Provost Bishop, Mrs. Duke and Chancellor Sillerman
While most instruction at Southampton Graduate Campus takes place in small classes, faculty guest speakers frequently draw a larger audience than can be accommodated in a regular classroom. The inclusion of a technologically equipped lecture hall, accommodating 150 people, will give the College considerably greater flexibility in scheduling both courses and special occasions for the benefit of the College and the broader community. It will be a particularly appropriate venue for the World Affairs Council, which was founded by the College?s first Chancellor, the late Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, for whom the hall will be named. The Council represents adult education at its best. It takes advantage of the resources of Long Island University and also the College?s location in the Hamptons to provide the community with access to some of the world?s most distinguished speakers addressing topical issues. The Duke Lecture Hall will also make it possible for the College and the Council to attract an increasing number of leading scientists, authors and scholars.
Foyer: $150,000
Contiguous to the Angier Biddle Duke Lecture Hall will be an attractive, enclosed reception area to accommodate those utilizing the new hall and provide an appropriate venue for social gatherings.
Faculty and Student Lounge: $50,000
Space has been provided in the new academic center for a lounge for use by faculty and students. This appealing space is essential for an academic community that places such a high value on informal exchanges among students and faculty.
Faculty Offices: $25,000
Unquestionably, the College?s faculty, with its extraordinary commitment to teaching and to encouraging students to seek individual counseling and instructional dialogue, represents its strongest asset. To facilitate frequent out-of-classroom exchanges between faculty and students requires additional and improved faculty offices. The thirteen offices included in the new building represent a start in addressing this need to provide better space for student/faculty interaction.
Dean?s Suite: $100,000
The new academic center will appropriately enable the Dean of the College to be centrally located on campus in a facility serving as the new central locus for the rich and varied intellectual life of the campus.
Departmental Offices: $30,000
Two departments, yet to be designated, will move from converted temporary quarters to appropriate space in the new academic building, in which their faculty members will also have offices.
Outdoor Roof Terrace: $100,000
This rooftop space, with its commanding westerly view of the campus, will afford students and faculty an appealing location in which to gather informally.

WPBX


Officials Breaking Ground
WPBX, 88.3 FM, Long Island?s Public Radio at Southampton Graduate Campus of Long Island University, is a National Public Radio station; it offers Long Island and Southern New England listeners award-winning news programs and a rich variety of the best in Jazz, Classical and Progressive music. WPBX will be housed in a specially-designed space in the new Academic Center. The new station will include three on-air studios, a fully-equipped modern production studio, a music library and a master control room. In addition, the facility will provide offices for staff, a meeting/conference room, a performance studio for live or recorded broadcasts and welcoming spaces for volunteers and members of the public.

The new studios will enable WPBX to continue improving its quality programming, while providing attractive quarters for the staff and many community volunteers who operate the station . The improved facility will also strengthen WPBX?s important role as a valuable training ground for Southampton Graduate Campus students majoring in Communication Arts. The campus AM station, WLIU, used for training and educational programs, will also be housed here. The attractive new space will be useful for station tours and for broadcasting workshops and lectures for community groups, youth groups, school groups, senior citizens and volunteers.

Mission

WPBX is much more than a broadcast signal - it is a vital community resource whose value cannot be measured in rating points or signal strength. The station is a cultural and civic asset whose signal will soon reach nearly all of Long Island, as well as much of Southern New England. It enhances the quality of life of its many listeners and serves as a center of information dissemination for organizations throughout its listening area. Through its blend of music, community information and news, WPBX informs, educates and inspires in the best traditions of public radio.

WPBX is also a unique and valuable learning laboratory. It offers individualized, hands-on experience in professional broadcasting to both Southampton Graduate Campus students and community volunteers, a balance that contributes greatly to the station?s strength.

History

WPBX has come a long way since 1982, when a handful of students broadcast a 150-watt signal from a dormitory room. In 1994, with its power increased to 25,000 watts, the station joined the National Public Radio Network, becoming the first Long Island-based public radio station to air NPR?s award-winning Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In 1998, WPBX will begin transmitting from Manorville, increasing the station?s range to make it heard throughout most of Long Island and further into New England.
A New Home: $1,000,000
The high caliber and growth of programming on WPBX has been particularly remarkable given the station?s limited equipment in its existing quarters in the converted basement of a turn-of-the-century building. WPBX?s potential to be of better service to its listening public will be greatly enhanced by suitable studio and office space. Allocation of the top floor of a wing of Southampton Graduate Campus?s new academic center to WPBX solves the most pressing space and studio needs of the station. Architects Mitchell/Giurgola, assisted by Meridian Associates, a firm specializing in broadcast studio design, have designed an exciting modern facility that will meet the needs of WPBX now and far into the future.

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