A New Home for Heller
Heller's new home, The Irving Schneider and Family Building, opened on November 3, 2006. This state-of-the-art environment is a showcase of sustainable design, constructed with technologies that increase energy efficiency and reduce operating costs, provide a healthy environment for those who learn and work within the building, and contribute to conserving environmental resources both locally and globally.
costs, provide a healthy environment for those who learn and work within the building, and contribute to conserving environmental resources both locally and globally. In the Irving Schneider and Family Building, Heller students now have expanded classroom and lecture space, lounges and study areas. The spectacular Rhonda S. and Michael J. Zinner Forum accommodates guest speakers and meetings, and encourages faculty, student and staff interaction with its open, inviting space.
Mindy and Lynn Schneider and other Schneider family members with Heller Dean Stuart Altman and Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz.
The Irving Schneider and Family Building was built due to the generosity of the Schneider family and Irving Schneider, longtime friend, philanthropist, and trustee emeritus of Brandeis University. The Schneider family’s generosity and vision also led to the establishment of the Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Heller’s largest and best-known research institute.
With the opening of the Irving Schneider and Family Building, renovation of the adjacent Heller-Brown building is now underway and due to be completed by the summer of 2007. When Heller-Brown reopens, the Heller School will have twice the amount of space than it previously occupied. Once the entire complex is complete, Heller faculty and researchers who have been housed in satellite space in other areas of the Brandeis campus will be together with the rest of The School in a unified space.
"This is an exciting time for the Heller School," said Heller School Dean Stuart Altman. "With the extraordinary support from Irving Schneider and the Schneider family, Heller’s physical presence will now be able to keep pace with the extraordinary breadth of education, scholarship, and public engagement taking place at The School."
Dean Stuart Altman (front row, third from left) with benefactors of the Irving Schneider and Family Building and the Heller Board of Overseers.
Donors Stan Wallack (Director of the Heller School's Schneider Institutes for Health Policy), Michael and Rhonda Zinner, and Tom Glynn with his wife and daughter
Donor/overseer Moses Feldman with former Dean Jack Shonkoff
Building architects Steve Lacker and Kyu Sung Woo
