COLLEGE STATION, Dec. 14, 2010 – Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new liberal arts and humanities building at Texas A&M University are set for 10 a.m. Thursday (Dec. 16).
The new building, which will be located in the historic core of the Texas A&M campus, is expected to enhance interdisciplinary collaborations in the arts and humanities on campus, in part because it will be near the History Department and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, as well as the Department of Visualization in the College of Architecture.
Speakers for the ceremony include Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin, Regent Jim Schwertner and College of Liberal Arts Dean José Luίs Bermudez, who will preside over the ceremony.
The 107,000-square-foot building, scheduled to be completed in 2012, is the first building at Texas A&M specifically designed for instruction and scholarship in the arts and humanities, officials note.
It will be the new home of the Department of English, which includes three recipients of prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships, the editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography and international leadership of The Donne Variorum project. The new building also will house the Institute for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture, one of the university’s Academic Master Plan initiatives.
Additionally, it will house the Department of Performance Studies, established in 1999 as the first department at Texas A&M solely devoted to the arts. Faculty and students from the department have already received several national and international performance awards and invitations to perform at many of the top venues in the world.
Contact: Blair Williamson, bwilliamson@libarts.tamu.edu, (979) 458-1347
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