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Contact news - 04.25.06NEVADA BOARD OF REGENTS APPROVE ARTHUR C. CLARKE CENTER AT UNLV(Washington, DC, and Reno, NV, Tuesday, April 25, 2006) - Meeting at Reno, Nevada, on March 16, 2006, the Student and Academic Affairs Committee of the Nevada Board of Regents “unanimously and enthusiastically” approved the proposed Arthur C. Clarke Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The next day the full Board of Regents backed the Committee vote with unanimous approval. Styled formally “The Arthur C. Clarke Center to investigate the reach and impact of human imagination and put opportunity in its path,” the project benefited from four years of consultation and study before presentation to the Nevada Board of Regents. Parties consulted included Sir Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka; UNLV Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Paul Ferguson; UNLV Honors College Dean Stephen Rosenbaum; retired Deans James Frey and Gene Hall; Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering former Acting Dean Darrell Pepper; and a wide array of other faculty and administration leaders at the University. In Las Vegas, the Nevada Development Authority and other civic and business leaders added support. Arthur C. Clarke Foundation participation was led principally by Washington DC-based Clarke Board members, including Foundation Chair Tedson J. Meyers, retired veteran communications attorney; Vice Chair Dr. Joseph Pelton of George Washington University, and George Hartman of Washington D.C., who was 1988 Architect of the Year in the United States. Hartman was particularly instrumental in working with the UNLV School of Architecture on the successful 2005 Student Design Competition culminating in proposals receiving considerable notice in the Las Vegas area. “Now we turn to three parallel tasks,” ACCF Chairman Tedson Meyers said. “First is the assembly of the Academic Team under Dean Rosenbaum, to map out participation and timing within the University. In effect, they will get a ‘virtual’ Center up and running well before final location and design of the building itself. And, as key to the Center’s work will be understanding imagination in young school children, that team will be working on relationships with the fast-growing Clark County school system. “Second,” Meyers said, “is a search for the right physical location for the Clarke Center building and completion of a design. And third, working with the UNLV Foundation, is a fundraising effort in which both elements – UNLV and the Clarke Foundation – are committed. “It’s been a long journey to this point,” Meyers added, “but hardly uphill. Enthusiasm and support in the University and the Las Vegas community has been compelling, and we are delighted to be a part of it. Now, with the Regent’s unanimous approval, we are ready to move forward.”
For additional information see the UNLV media release: http://www.unlv.edu/News_Bureau/News_Releases/2006/March06/60324.htm Media Contact: Back to News |
