Location and Campus
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford is located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, a small city located in rural McKean County, Pennsylvania, 78 miles (126 km) south of Buffalo, New York, and 160 miles (260 km) north of Pittsburgh, PA. An oil boomtown in the late 19th century, Bradford is now well known as the home of Zippo Manufacturing Co. The city and two adjoining townships have a combined population of 18,000.
The university has nine main buildings, an athletics complex, which includes baseball and softball diamonds, a soccer field, and basketball and tennis courts; and several apartment-style residence halls.
Blaisdell Hall is Pitt-Bradford's fine arts and communication arts building and is home to the broadcast communications, public relations, interdisciplinary arts, art, theater and music programs. The building features all-digital television and radio studios, an art gallery, a 500-seat theater, art studios, a music rehearsal hall, cutting-edge lighting and sound booths, and music theory and technology studios.
The Ceramics Studio allows students to get their hands dirty, literally. The studio houses all of the equipment needed to create ceramic masterpieces, including 16 motorized pottery wheels, a manual kick wheel, a work table and a kiln.
The CSI House, also known on campus as the Red House, is home to the Forensic Science program. Students can learn how to process a crime scene, and collect evidence
Dorn House is a three-story, 103 student residence hall consisting of two-, four- and five-person suites with each bedroom having a private bathroom, phone line, cable hookup, and computer port with students sharing a living room, kitchen and storage area. The $5.42 million residence is set to open in September 2010 and will bring the on-campus resident capacity to nearly 1,000 students. As there are no traditional dorms on campus, other student housing consists of live-in apartments, which are all fully wired for cable TV and Internet access.
Fisher Hall houses science classes such as biology, chemistry, physics and engineering and is also home to the science labs. The building also houses two computer-aided learning centers, known as CALC labs. And, atop the building is the campus greenhouse. In 2010, a $5.9 million project was announced to upgrade the chemistry and biology laboratories in Fisher Hall.
The Frame-Westerberg Commons is known as the students center. The building houses the campus dining room, a Commons Cafe, where students can get a quick meal while sitting by the fireplace; the Panthershop, which services as the campus bookstore and also features an after-hours convenience store; WDRQ, the campus radio station; a gameroom, which includes pool tables and ping pong tables; and a lounge area, where students can relax on one of several couches while watching the big-screen TV.
The Hangar Building, which actually used to be an airplane hangar, houses the Office of Enrollment Services and Registrar, the Office of Financial Aid and the Office of Business Affairs.
Hanley Library houses more than 95,000 books. The library also houses 250 electronic data bases, 9,300 e-journals, e-books and other electronic resources. And, because Pitt-Bradford is part of the University of Pittsburgh, students also have access to more than 4 million books through interlibrary loan. The library is also home to the Academic Success Center and the TRiO Student Support Services, which provides academic assistance to the students who need it.
The Seneca Building, which is located in downtown Bradford, houses the offices of Outreach Services, the Center for Rural Health Practice, a component of the entrepreneurship program and the TRiO Student Support Services Talent Search Program.
The Sport and Fitness Center houses a performance arena, where basketball and volleyball play; a fully equipped fitness center; an NCAA-regulation, six-lane swimming pool; a dance studio; a fieldhouse, where students participate in intramural and other recreational activities; a physiology lab, where students perform cardiac testing or fitness analyses; and a specially equipped athletic training room.
Swarts Hall, Pitt-Bradford's first academic building, is home to several academic disciplines, including business, education, nursing, history and political science, economics and sociology. The building also houses several multimedia classrooms.
Wick Chapel, a $2.5 million, 150-seat, multipurpose, nondenominational chapel was dedicated on September 30, 2010.
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