There is a new building on campus. Well, an old building with a new name. The Hubert Heitman Staff Learning Center is the official new name for the old Hog Barn. Its renovation is complete and the Heitman center is now open, encompassing offices and classroom space for Staff Development and Professional Services.

Built in 1913 in the wide open spaces of what was then called the University Farm, the shingle-sided barn helped to establish the Craftsman-style architecture for which UC Davis is known. As the campus grew, the barn became dwarfed by new neighbors, including the Crocker Nuclear Lab and Academic Surge.

The barn closed as an agricultural building in 2002, when the swine program moved to a new facility west of Highway 113. Then, in 2004, to make room for the Mathematical Sciences Building, the barn was moved to where it is today: south of the Silo.

Heitman (1917-93), the building’s new namesake, was an animal husbandry professor and swine researcher who won many accolades for his innovative swine management programs. He also served in a range of administrative roles and was an avid athletics promoter.

The center will be officially dedicated in the spring.

More information and course enrollment: sdps.ucdavis.edu.