classrooms while also providing views of the surrounding urban environment. The open plan of the structure enables collaboration within the design studios.
The Science and Education Research Center (SERC) was completed in spring of 2014. The Project has attained LEED Gold Certification.
In November 2024, Temple announced the development of a new home for the Klein College of Media and Communication and the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts. It will be a 199,000-square-foot facility west of Broad Street across from the entrance to Polett Walk. It will include several new theatres, a student media center, and a virtual reality/innovation lab.
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Sullivan Hall (then Sullivan Memorial Library) served as Temple's first free-standing library. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended its dedication ceremony on February 22, 1936. Sullivan Hall houses the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection.
In 1966, the university library moved one block east to the Samuel L. Paley Library. It …
