Uithof

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De Uithof is the campus area of the Utrecht University and the University of Professional Education Utrecht. It is located on the east of Utrecht, near the Galgenwaard Stadium of FC Utrecht. Except for the faculties of Law and Humanities, which are located in the inner city of Utrecht, most of the buildings of the University are on De Uithof. De Uithof also contains the UMC (University Medical Centre) hospital, the main library of the university, student housing, botanical gardens, and a supermarket.

There is a high-quality bus line to the inner city and the train station, served by bi-articulated buses.

[edit] Buildings on De Uithof

Some of the buildings on De Uithof have an unusual architecture. The Educatorium Building, which was designed by Rem Koolhaas, contains a glass-bottomed walking bridge and circular walls. The Minnaert Building contains a large basin that collects rain water. The wall of the canteen is supported by the characters 'M', 'I', 'N', 'N', 'A', 'E', 'R', 'T'. Most of the buildings are named after scientists that worked in a field which is similar to the specialization of the occupants of the building. A few of the buildings are:

• Bloembergen Building, named after Nicolaas Bloembergen, a physicist.
• Buys Ballot Laboratorium (BBL), named after C.H.D. Buys Ballot, a metereologist.
• Caroline Bleeker Building, named after Caroline Bleeker, an early female physicist.
• Centrumgebouw Noord
• Earth Sciences Building (Aardwetenschappengebouw)
• Educatorium Building
• Kruyt Building, named after Hugo R. Kruyt, a chemist.
• Langeveld Building (formerly known as Centrumgebouw Zuid), named after Martinus J. Langeveld, who started the Faculty of Social Sciences of the university.
• Math Building (Wiskundegebouw)
• Minnaert Building, named after Marcel Minnaert, a Belgian astronomer.
• Ornstein Laboratorium, named after Leonard S. Ornstein, an experimental physicist.
• Ruppert Building (formerly known as Trans-1), named after Marinus Ruppert, who started the development of buildings on De Uithof.
• Unnik Building (formerly known as Trans-2), named after Willem C. van Unnik, a Dutch bible scientist.
• Van de Graaff Laboratory, named after the physicist and instrument maker Robert J. Van de Graaff
• Went Building, named after Frits A.F.C. Went, a botanist.

During the wind storms in January 2007 a crane fell on the Ruppert Building.