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29 Contact Duquesne University 21 37 18 38 Our admissions counselors are here to 19 20 28 43 answer any questions you have. 6 1 Visit us 32 Schedule a guided campus visit online at 13 22 55 duq.edu/visit or call 800.456.0590. 7 E-mail us 8 23 [email protected] 33 Call us 14 412.396.6222 or 800.456.0590 30 /duquesne.admissions /duquesne.financialaid @DUQadmissions 9 2 For a virtual guided tour, please visit 34 duq.edu/tour 44 24 54 39 15 48 3 40 10 35 49 41 45 31 25 4 50 16 26 11 53 46 5 12 36 51 27 17 42 47 52 Self-Guided 1 Libermann Hall 10 Rangos School of 18 Nigeria Building 28 Muldoon Building 38 Tobin Building 47 St. Martin Hall Walking 2 Rockwell Hall Health Sciences 19 Ghana Building 29 Hehir Building 39 Locust Garage 48 Public Safety 3 Rockwell Hall Skywalk 11 Duquesne Chapel 20 Tribone Center 30 Duquesne Square 40 Genesius Theater 49 Des Places Hall Tour 12 Administration Building 4 Trinity Hall 21 Cooper Building 31 Duquesne Union 41 Mary Pappert School 50 St. Ann Hall (“Old Main”) 5 Lourdes Grotto 22 Willms Building 32 Power Center of Music 51 Assumption Commons 13 Fisher Hall 6 Koren Building 23 Murphy Building 33 Sklar Skywalk 42 Duquesne Towers 52 Assumption Hall 14 Fisher Hall Skywalk 7 Mendel Hall 24 Gumberg Library 34 Forbes Garage 43 Van Kaam Building 53 Academic Walk 15 Brottier Commons 8 Clement Hall 25 School of Law 35 College Hall 44 UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse 54 Energy Center 16 Canevin Hall duq.edu/tour 9 Brottier Hall 26 Laval House 36 Rooney Field 45 McCloskey Field 55 College of Osteopathic 17 Bayer Learning Center 27 Mellon Hall 37 Bushinski Building 46 Vickroy Hall Medicine (future site) We’re glad you’re here! 4 Trinity Hall 17 Bayer Learning Center Recreation and 40 Genesius Theater 49 Des Places Hall West of the Administration Building sits Trinity Hall, Bayer Learning Center, one of the most Athletics Tour The Genesius Theater is a 10,500 square-foot, two- Des Places Hall, completed in 2012 and named Welcome to Duquesne University. We hope you the residence of the Spiritan priests who serve the technologically advanced classroom facilities in story multipurpose structure that holds approximately for Claude Poullart des Places, the founder of the enjoy your visit! University as administrators and teachers. the region, has 18 multimedia classrooms that 130 seats. The theater’s major features include a main Spiritans, is Duquesne’s newest residence hall. The provide satellite downlink capabilities, electronic 31 Duquesne Union entrance and lobby, rehearsal hall, dressing rooms, 12-story structure, designed to have numerous whiteboards, projection screens and interactive Along with retail facilities, including Starbucks, building shops, costume storage and a green room. environmentally friendly features while offering To help you find your way around, we’ve created 26 Laval House student response pads. The building also houses the Chick-fil-A Express, a computer store, a large the highest levels of comfort and safety, houses self-guided walking tours that will give you an Laval House serves as the Spiritan Vocation offices of the School of Pharmacy. study lounge, and PNC Bank ATMs, the Duquesne approximately 430 upperclassmen in single rooms inside look at our beautiful campus. Take your Office and provides housing for visiting Spiritans Union houses recreational amenities, a ballroom, Residence Hall Tour and two- or three-bedroom suites. pick of several short walks, each focused on a and undergraduate students preparing for the conference facilities, and several offices including 27 Mellon Hall different aspect of campus life: our heritage, priesthood. In the past, the building served as the Student Activities, Greek Life, Office of Diversity University President’s Office and, prior to that, as a Next to Bayer Learning Center is the Richard King 9 Brottier Hall our award-winning academic programs, our and Inclusion, Judicial Affairs, Commuter Affairs, Sustainability Tour convent. Mellon Hall of Science. This four-story structure, the Center for Career Development, Freshman At the corner of Locust Street and McAnulty Drive recreational and athletic facilities, our residence designed by acclaimed architect Mies van der Rohe, Development and Disability Services, and Health is Brottier Hall, a building of studio, one- and two- halls, and our efforts to be more sustainable. houses the departments of Biological Sciences 31 Duquesne Union, Second Floor 53 Academic Walk Service and Center for Pharmacy Care. bedroom apartments with spectacular views of and Chemistry, the laboratories for the School Pittsburgh. It is 20 stories high, with 314 rental units. Renovation Academic Walk, or “A-Walk,” the long pedestrian mall of Pharmacy. Instructional facilities include two Each unit is equipped with a full kitchen including A major renovation in the Duquesne Union has A Safe and Welcoming Campus extending through the heart of campus, was once large amphitheater-style lecture halls, each with a Duquesne Union refrigerator, electric stove and microwave, and a earned Gold Certification under the U.S. Green known as Vickroy Street. As late as the 1950s, it was 250-person seating capacity, as well as well-equipped private bathroom. Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and lined with row houses where successive waves of Pittsburgh is one of the nation’s safest cities labs and a science computer facility. Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. The immigrants made their homes. As Duquesne grew, and Duquesne’s Department of Public Safety project created a healthier human environment, with one by one these buildings became part of the 46 Vickroy Hall increased fresh airflow, enhanced air filtration, low- is one of the few university police forces in University. They served as student housing, office 35 College Hall Vickroy Hall is a 322-bed facility with double and volatile organic compound finishes and an extensive the state to be accredited by the Pennsylvania space and classrooms. Laval House is the last of College Hall, a six-story building, is the home of the triple rooms and bathrooms shared by four or five green cleaning program. It also features paneling, these Vickroy Street structures. McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Chiefs of Police Association. With more than 50 people. Vickroy Hall is reserved for upperclassmen cabinets and doors constructed of wood certified by and houses most of its departments and facilities. well-trained officers and security staff, we are and some graduate students. Residents have access the Forest Stewardship Council. Instructional facilities include public computer labs, fully committed to maintaining a safe campus to a kitchen with ovens, pots and pans, refrigerators the University’s Writing Center, student TV and radio for students, faculty, staff and visitors. Academic Tour and more. studios, and two large lecture halls. 32 Power Center 24 Gumberg Library The Power Center earned LEED Silver Certification As you’re taking in the sights, don’t be afraid to 36 Rooney Field from the U.S. Green Building Council. The 136,000 Near the crest of Locust Street is the Gumberg College Hall Vickroy Hall ask for help or directions. Our students, faculty Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field is named in honor sq. ft. multipurpose building, which includes a Library, a five-story facility with holdings that include of the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers (and bookstore, restaurants, recreational facilities and a and staff are proud of Duquesne and are eager print and digital resources, an extensive collection Duquesne alumnus). It is the home field of the ballroom, was designed and built within a framework to help visitors. of sound recordings and the School of Education’s University’s football team, men’s and women’s of high concern for the environment. Curriculum Center, as well as invaluable archival soccer teams, and the women’s lacrosse team. materials. At the eastern end of the field is the field house, 49 Des Places Hall with locker rooms, an athletic training room and Named in honor of the founder of the Congregation Heritage Tour 1 Libermann Hall coaches’ offices. of the Holy Spirit, Claude Poullart des Places, this Duquesne’s newest academic building is a thoroughly 12-story residence hall incorporates a full range of 12 “Old Main” renovated eight-story structure housing the 45 McCloskey Field the latest sustainable technologies in its design and Biomedical Engineering (BME) program and veteran Duquesne was founded in 1878 in rented rooms On the corner of Seitz Street sits McCloskey Field, construction as well as in its daily operations. Des student enrollment services, as well as BME, Nursing above a bakery in Pittsburgh’s historic Hill District which is used for outdoor intramural sports and a Duquesne Towers Places Hall earned LEED Gold Certification from the and Occupational Therapy labs. 41 Mary Pappert School of Music 42 neighborhood, which lies just north and east of wide variety of other recreational activities. The U.S. Green Building Council. Home to the Mary Pappert School of Music, this Duquesne Towers is a 17-floor residence for 1,200 campus. In 1885, Spiritan priests and brothers field is surrounded by a four-lane, all-weather building has more than classrooms, offices and men and women. In addition to the resident rooms, constructed the current Administration Building, 2 Rockwell Hall track used by the campus community as well as practices spaces. Inside are electronic music studios, the facility features the renovated and expanded known now as “Old Main,” of wooden beams and the University’s track and field teams. Des Places Hall handmade bricks. It is the first structure to be built Rockwell Hall houses the Palumbo-Donahue School a keyboard lab and a Music Technology Center as Sean Hogan Dining Center, a convenience store, the on campus and at one time housed all of the school’s of Business.