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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > North Campus Building Profiles > Jarvis Hall

Jarvis Hall

Facility:
Number:
Function:
Gross Square Feet:
Construction Cost:
Completed:
Architect:

JARVIS
A440
Academic
58,851
$5,581,000
August, 1981
Marcel Breuer and Associates of New York City; Cannon Design

OCCUPANTS 

Jarvis Hall Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

Jarvis is part of the Engineering School complex.

NAMESAKE 

Gregory JarvisGregory Jarvis (1944-1986), a graduate of UB's electrical engineering program in 1967, lost his life with six others on the space shuttle Challenger. Captain Jarvis left active duty with the Air Force to join Hughes Aircraft. Jarvis was chosen from over 600 engineering applicants at Hughes to become a payload specialist and he was selected to fly on Challenger STS 51-L, which was destroyed one minute and 13 seconds after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Jarvis gave an inspirational commencement address at UB in 1985. After his death, students nailed a sign reading "Jarvis Hall" to the Engineering East building. The name was made official in a 1987 dedication ceremony.