The construction of the Mandel Humanities Center at Brandeis University continues at full steam

Brandeis has long had a profound commitment to scholarship and learning in the humanities, but until now has not had the means to integrate the diverse fields of humanistic inquiry. The Mandel gift to build a designated HumanitiesCenter represents an extraordinary opportunity to bring together those different disciplines, thereby generating new curricular and research activities that will transform the intellectual climate at the University. The MandelCenter for the Humanities will significantly enrich the learning experience of students and will make important contributions to scholarship, stimulating the faculty to rethink research questions, methods, and connections to other core and affiliate disciplines in the humanities. 

The Mandel Humanities Center will feature a large, multi-purpose space for talks, gatherings, and other events, adjacent to an outdoor terrace. The uppermost level of the four-story building will include a reading room and a roof garden. The building will include a 100-seat theater/lecture hall, a 50-seat, tiered classroom, and two new 24-seat seminar rooms, as well as offices and open-office workstations.

The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Mandel Humanities Center took place on September 23, 2008. Work on utilities to serve the Mandel Humanities Center began in February 2009, and excavation for footings and foundations for the Center began in mid-June 2009. All floor slabs have been poured, and the roof was poured at the end of October. The project is on schedule and the Center is expected to be complete in time for the start of the fall 2010 semester.

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