学生服务中心开始营业
餐饮设施,学术和职业咨询项目都在一个屋檐下
If the number of students eating at the new 学生服务中心 is any indication, it’s safe to say the building is already a smashing success. 餐饮服务部报告说,每周接待的人数比预期增加了40%,增加了1.3万人。
Whether meal-hopping, studying, or seeking academic and career counseling, students are finding a new home at 100 Bay State Road, the 120,000-plus-square-foot facility designed by architects Bruner/Cott & Associates that opened for fall semester. The building’s first two floors are dedicated to dining, its top four floors to the 教育资源中心 (ERC), the 职业发展中心 (CCD), and several College of Arts & Sciences writing and advising programs, and its basement to a bakery and coffee shop, a late-night kitchen and function room, bike storage, and shower facilities for biking commuters.
Several alumni backed the $65 million project with generous donations, among them University trustee Sharon Ryan (SAR’70) and her husband, Robert, who gave $1 million toward the center’s endowment, and Arthur Marciano (CGE’49, COM’51), who gave $3 million for the endowment The dining facilities are named Marciano共用 after him and his late wife, Ann (CAS’50).

Dennis Carlberg, the University’s 可持续性 director, says the building is 20 percent more energy-efficient than most new construction and features cutting-edge, ecofriendly technology, including a green roof, an innovative cooling system that uses chilled beams instead of forced air, and a device used to squeeze water from composted food scraps to reduce weight and thus the cost of disposal (BU pays per pound of trash or compost removed). These and other green features, he says, should qualify the facility for 领导能源和环境设计 (LEED) certification.
Marciano共用的新鲜食品公司(Fresh Food Company)取代了东校区的四个过时的食堂,并以校园内的其他餐厅为蓝本,在开放式厨房里准备食物。 这里有做披萨的砖炉(Brick Oven)、炒菜展(Exhibition sautre),还有一个每天做新鲜意大利面的地中海站(Mediterranean station)。 数字菜单板提供饮食信息和新菜式的更新。 超过1000人的座位分布在中央楼层,或隐藏在私密区域,如客厅,设有燃气壁炉和舒适的隔间,以及Kenmore Room,在那里,管道音乐和深色色调给人一种精致的感觉。
但负责运营的高级副总裁加里·尼克萨(Gary Nicksa)说,该中心不仅仅是一个餐厅,它还是一个旅游目的地。 “我们经常谈论食物,但真正改变的是社交体验,”他说。 “这些是人们去的地方,他们会呆很长时间,无论是坐在桌子旁学习,还是和他们的项目或班级的学生一起工作。”

三楼是中国科学院写作研修班,所有本科生都可以在这里接受免费辅导。 四楼是中科院学生学术生活中心,为学生提供学术和职前指导。 位于五楼和六楼的ERC和CCD办公室提供方便的工作坊、同伴辅导、写作协助和职业建议。
“It is very exciting to have such a wonderful and coherent space for both CAS 学生学术生活 and the 写作计划, and to have these programs in such close proximity to Career Services and the 教育al Resource Center,” says Virginia Sapiro, dean of Arts & Sciences. “CAS的这两个主要办公室都以多种方式为波士顿大学的所有本科生提供服务,因此增加与大学级别学生服务的联系,使我们能够更好地为学生服务,并创建一个更加以学生为中心的大学。”
学生事务主任肯尼斯·埃尔莫尔(Kenneth Elmore)(87届SED ' 87)说,将以前位于校园七座建筑中的四个学术和咨询项目的服务整合在一起,形成了一个“学生的思想中心”。 他喜欢该校负责招生和学生事务的副校长劳里·波尔(Laurie Pohl)的说法:“这是一个你可以来开会,离开时带着计划的地方。”
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