List of Northwestern University Residences - Residential Colleges - Slivka Residential College For Science and Engineering

Slivka Residential College For Science and Engineering

Slivka Hall was built in 2002 as Northwestern's residential college devoted to science and engineering. It was named after Ben Slivka, a Northwestern graduate of 1982 who headed Microsoft's Internet Explorer team up to version 3.0. Slivka is located on the northern part of campus. It lies between CCI and the fraternities. The nearest dining hall is Sargent Hall.

While predominantly made up of engineers, Slivka does contain some students from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. It is organized into suites by gender and has an unusually high retention rate of upperclassmen, unlike other residential colleges. Periodically, Slivka brings in professors and other Northwestern faculty, such as James Fraser Stoddart, to speak on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to the economics of the internet to string theory. Slivka has four floors and a basement. The basement houses the Discovery Room (a room containing computers, printers, and other assorted technology), the bike room, the music room, and the laundry room. The first floor contains Lisa's Cafe and the second floor contains the Rec Lounge. All the floors contain a varying number of suites, ranging from two on the first floor to six on the third and fourth floors, and a kitchen with an oven, a stove, a refrigerator, a washing machine and a microwave.

Slivka maintains a close relationship with their faculty fellows, professors and staff from the university who choose to associate themselves with Slivka. It hosts semiweekly professor to peer (P2P) lunches where Slivka fellows are invited to join the residents for lunch at Sargent Hall and quarterly Student-Fellow Reception where the fellows join the residents for a catered meal. Slivka's fellows are always invited to attend any events the dorm participates in.