The IUPUI Guitar Ensemble plays a musical selection during the North Hall dedication ceremony.IU President Michael A. McRobbie welcomes guests to the dedication ceremony for North Hall at IUPUI.IUPUI Chancellor Nasser Paydar delivers remarks during the North Hall dedication ceremony. North Hall is the first traditional residence hall built at IUPUI since the campus was formed in 1969. The residence hall opened in August for approximately 700 students, many of them first-year members of the IUPUI community.Tralicia Powell Lewis, interim vice chancellor for student affairs, talks about North Hall and its impact on IUPUI students. North Hall was designed with resident interaction in mind. A grand lobby and 30 micro-lounges provide opportunity for connection, while classrooms are used for academics by day and Housing and Residence Life programs by night.IU President Michael A. McRobbie holds up the key to North Hall after MaryEllen K. Bishop (left) presented it to him. Gary Voirol, a representative from the project’s architecture firm MSKTD & Associates, Inc., applauds.Following the North Hall dedication ceremony, IU President Michael A. McRobbie and the IU Board of Trustees toured the new residence hall.An IUPUI student shows his North Hall room to IUPUI Chancellor Nasser Paydar, Interim Associate Dean of Students and Director for Housing and Residence Life Aaron Hart and IU President Michael A. McRobbie.
The tour of North Hall includes a stop at a micro-lounge, which is one of many locations that students can work together.
