Progress of Knight Hall
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For all its stunning design and technological wizardry, the $30 million Knight Hall will also be a warm and vibrant place. It will be where ideas are shared and shaped, where new media and old media rub elbows, and professionals and students learn and interact on a daily basis.
Currently under construction and opening late 2009, the new home for the Merrill College will bring nearly all of its programs and centers under one roof. It will also be the first "green" building on the University of Maryland campus. Its state-of-the-art classroom and news laboratory spaces will be springboards for the next generation of journalism leaders, and the third-floor professional training centers will be epicenters of media study and national advocacy.
Signature spaces will include: a two-story Great Hall; the Richard Eaton Broadcast Theater; the Edith Kinney Gaylord Journalism Resource Center; a multi-media “news bubble” lab; four 18-seat news labs; three seminar rooms; two 30-seat classrooms; the Gene Roberts Executive Board room; and multiple meeting spaces for formal and informal gatherings. It will truly be a space to launch the next era of news.
