This open, three-story space—named in honor of the late, impactful Physics Department head and pre-med/pre-professional programs coordinator—is tucked in toward the north side of Weston Hall. It is not only a bright, plant-filled area to study, snack and chill under a colorful portrait of Albert Einstein, but its other natural features transport visitors to other lands. Aquariums invite meditation, while a unique display of African ungulates whisks one to African savannahs.
The mounts were a gift from Henri and Beatrice Luebbermann of Tucson, Arizona, and are part of the NMU Museum of Zoology collections. Featured are a greater kudu, bushbuck, nyala, Cape buffalo, waterbuck, sable antelope, impala, reedbuck, red hartebeest, oribi, and a red and trey duiker. As the Biology Department frequently offers research opportunities in Zambia and other African countries, these animals, and a mounted reference guide to their characteristics, which overlooks the mounts, can be valuable for students who may experience them in the wild.
