RockhuRst univeRsity 2012–2014 catalog

On-Campus Housingu Xavier-Loyola (1958), Corcoran (1962) and McGee (1966) Halls. These studentresidence halls accommodate 640 students in double rooms. Each building containsa laundry, lounge, chapel, and computer facility. McGee was renovated in 2008 andCorcoran in 2009.u Town House Village (1994). This housing option features residence for 200 studentswith priority given to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. The townhouses offer amixture of 42 apartment-styled units with one, two or three bedrooms. The centrallylocated community center houses gathering areas, laundry facilities, and a computerroom.u On-Campus Houses (2006). Located just north and south of the main campus, thesehouses hold approximately 120 junior and senior students.Adjacent to the Campusu Claver Jesuit Residence (1991). The residence offers living, meeting and chapel facilitiesfor 30 Jesuit priests, scholastics and brothers who staff and serve the University,the parish and Rockhurst High School.u North Garage (2012). The 423 parking stall garage was erected in 2011 and providesmuch needed parking capacity to the campus. Completed in early 2012, it includesover 10,000 square feet of commercial retail space to support the campus as well as thesurrounding neighborhoods. It was constructed using environmentally friendly methodsand is pending LEED silver certification.u St. Francis Xavier Church (1950). SFX is a parish church adjoining the campus,where students may attend Mass and which the University uses for some services.Science LaboratoriesMajor grants from government and private sources have enabled the University to provide70,000 square feet of modern facilities for teaching and research in the Division ofNatural, Applied and Quantitative Sciences. Facilities within the St. Ignatius ScienceCenter are designed to encourage faculty, student, or faculty-student cooperative research.In the fall of 1996, the science center opened, housing the faculty and laboratoriesof the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Additionally, thisfacility includes laboratories for the occupational therapy education and physical therapygraduate programs, two student resource centers, two computerized classrooms, two multimediaauditoriums, and two seminar rooms.The Department of Biology has five laboratories equipped for general and advancedcourses, and two student/faculty research laboratories in the facility.The Department of Chemistry maintains seven instructional laboratories, includingtwo devoted entirely to instrumentation, plus two research laboratories. Nuclear magneticresonance, infrared, ultraviolet, visible and mass spectrometers, including Fourier transforminstrumentation, are maintained for student use in all classes and individual researchprojects. Instrumentation is also available for gas and liquid chromatography, atomicabsorption spectrometry, and electrochemistry.375