MEDIA ADVISORY
A "multimedia groundbreaking" Jan. 25 for CU-Boulder's new $34 million ATLAS Center will feature "virtual shovels" in a video to be shown on the site of the former Hunter Science Building, northeast of the University Memorial Center on campus.
The groundbreaking is at 12:30 p.m. and is open to the public. ATLAS is the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Institute.
The multimedia presentation will be shown on large video screens and will feature about 100 people from the campus and community who were asked to depict a groundbreaking for their video segments, hence "virtual shovels." Students and faculty in the video are from departments and programs to be represented in the new building, among them film studies, art and art history, and theater and dance, as well as partners in ATLAS and the ATLAS Center. Live narration of the video will be by Professor Diane Sieber, co-director of ATLAS, and Bobby Schnabel, director of ATLAS.
Before and after the groundbreaking ceremony, student-produced videos will be shown, student-produced music will be played, and hot drinks and donut holes will be provided.
Speakers will include the lead donor for the building, Jim Roser of Boulder, who with his wife, Becky, donated $2.25 million to the project. Also speaking will be CU President Elizabeth Hoffman, former CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny, student government tri-executive Garrett Stanton and Schnabel, vice provost for Academic and Campus Technology and faculty director of ATLAS.
The ATLAS Center's most prominent architectural feature will be a beacon-like lighted tower on the northeast corner of the building. Construction of the five-floor building will begin in February 2005 with completion scheduled for the fall 2006 semester.
For more information contact Bobby Schnabel at (303) 492-5094, Diane Sieber at (303) 492-6399 or Jeannine Malmsbury at (303) 492-3115.