The Gateway Center clusters services designed to help students make a successful transition to university life and fully immerse themselves in its vast learning opportunities. In the Gateway Center students can find academic advising, orientation programs for new students, freshmen and transfer student learning communities, opportunities to do research with faculty, internships, service learning courses, and scholarships. The Center for Career Services helps students extend these experiences into professional planning. They will be able to see the connections between academic planning and their life goals. The building also mixes classrooms with program areas.
Technology is a major area of emphasis in the new building.
As one of the first schools in the country to have created a project like UWired, the University took this opportunity to consider how the facilities in a single building could enable professors to integrate technology into learning. A number of sophisticated classrooms are equipped and wired for the latest technology. In classroom laboratories, instructors and students will be able to carry out experiments in teaching, learning and technology. Students have played an important role in contributing to the building's computer resources. This is the third construction phase for the building that began its life as Physics Hall in 1926 and underwent remodeling in 1948.