Arts and Sciences Hall, dedicated in 1938, is the original building on the west Dodge campus. Many opposed the west Dodge location at the time as they feared the municipal university would become a school for "the children of millionaires." The controversy was finally settled by an unexpected grant of $414,000 from the Public Works Administration. The grant required short deadlines that forced a decision in favor of the west Dodge location. Sources suggest that the grant was engineered by FDR himself. For more detail on our colorful history read The History of the University of Nebraska at Omaha by Professor of History, Dr. Tommy Thompson.

ASH is home to the humanities and social sciences departments and programs: Black Studies, English, Foreign Languages, History, Latino/Latin American Studies, Native American Studies, Philosophy and Religion,Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and Women's Studies.

In 1968, when the Municipal University became the University of Nebraska at Omaha, reserve funds were freed up to build a science building for the campus. The building was named Allwine Hall after A. A. Allwine who donated the Allwine Prairie to UNO in 1959.

AH is home to the Biology Department and the Psycho Biology program.

The Durham Science Center was dedicated in 1983 and named for Charles and Margre Durham for their generous donations to the cause.

The three-story, $14.5 million Science Center also houses a rooftop observatory and a newly remodeled 50-seat planetarium.

DSC is home to the departments of mathematics, chemistry, geography/geology and physics.

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