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<p>Media advisory: IUPUI hosting groundbreaking ceremony for University Hall</p>

Media advisory: IUPUI hosting groundbreaking ceremony for University Hall

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will preside over the groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, Feb. 13, for University Hall, a five-story, 100,000-square-foot building at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

The ceremony will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the IUPUI Campus Center Theater, 420 University Blvd.

Located at the corner of New York Street and University Boulevard, University Hall will serve as the new home of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, as well as providing expansion space for the Indiana University School of Social Work. Various offices serving the IU community will also be housed in University Hall.

Charles R. Bantz, IUPUI chancellor and executive vice president of Indiana University; Michael A. Patchner, dean of the Indiana University School of Social Work; and Eugene R. Tempel, founding dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, will participate in the ceremony.