The newly renovated and expanded Ruth S. Harley University Center is now a beautiful, environmentally friendly, state-of-the-art center for life at Adelphi.
Build Your Legacy
Be part of the UC story and donate a brick with your name. It's a beautiful way to put your stamp on the new UC.
New Look, New Award
Our reimagined Ruth S. Harley University Center has been recognized with the Long Island Business News 2021 Real Estate, Architecture and Engineering Award for Top Education Renovation. The honor cites the building’s excellent redesign and accessibility and its commitment to sustainability.
Explore the UC
Come inside Adelphi’s new hub for campus life –a beautiful new centerpiece of campus, renovated and redesigned to fit the needs of our community today.
Despite the challenges of construction during a global pandemic, the new University Center (UC) is complete—and opens its doors to the community on January 18, 2021. We welcome you to explore our new light-filled UC—either in person or by viewing the photo galleries—and discover our beautiful new lobby and meeting spaces, improved student lounge, the reimagined Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom, our full-size Starbucks, expanded Dining Hall and outdoor terrace. More photos will be added of our expanded art gallery, new Adelphi Bookstore and other spaces as they become available.
Panther Paw Prints, Permanently in Place
On Dec. 5, 2019, hundreds of Panthers gathered to sign their names to a steel beam that was about to be added to the UC renovation construction project. You can see the beam today, just visible high in the ceiling above the west lobby.
UC: Step Inside
Take a walk through the UC's beautiful new spaces to study, dine, grab a latte or meet up with friends. Here are just a few of our favorites places. Launch Gallery
UC: Step Inside
Take a walk through the UC's beautiful new spaces to study, dine, grab a latte or meet up with friends. Here are just a few of our favorites places. 5 Photos-
Study, lounge and charge up in seating with individual outlets. -
Enjoy a sandwhich and a mocha frappuccino at the full-size Starbucks. -
Choose from 6 different food stations and sit down with friends in the bright, spacious UC Dining Hall. -
Enjoy the new sun-filled lounge with floor-to-ceiling views of campus. -
Meet friends for lunch by the Food Flight mural, designed by UComm multimedia designer Sarah McCay.
