Minota Hagey Residence

=History=

Construction
Minota Hagey Residence was designed by architect Raymond Moriyama, whose other projects include the Ontario Science Centre, Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum, and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo It earned the Ontario Masons' Relations Council Award in 1968.

The building is named after Minota Hagey, the first wife of UW President Joseph Gerald Hagey.

=Residence= Minota Hagey contains 70 single rooms for upper-year (and occasionally first-year) students, with shared washroom and kitchen facilities. There were originally three common rooms or lounges with couches and televisions; since the renovations and conversion to VeloCity, there remains one large lounge ("the Great Hall") on the ground level, with the second-floor lounge converted to a device lab, and the third-floor lounge now a conference room. Minota Hagey is one of the two air-conditioned residences (along with MKV) open in the spring term.

=Velocity= Since Fall 2008, the Minota Hagey residence has been home to the VeloCity Mobile and Media Incubator, a unique program created to supplement classes and books with a taste of – and gateway to – successful entrepreneurship, forming a collaborative community of student innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs.

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