page_title: William R. Brody
section_title: Brody Learning Commons
hierarchical_section_title: William R. Brody / Legacy / Brody Learning Commons
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an image of the outside of the Brody Learning Commons.
context_page_description: William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
context_section_description: The Brody Learning Commons was officially opened in August of 2012. This building is a connection to Johns Hopkins University's already existing Milton S. Eisenhower Library and it was named in the honor of former university president William R. Brody and his wife, Wendy. Opening this new study space left Brody with a strong connection to the university. Brody and his wife, Wendy, stated: “We always considered ourselves very lucky to have such smart, talented young people as our neighbors. Having a place where students will gather to study and learn named after us feels like we get to keep a piece of Hopkins with us forever.”
  The building has several features: floor to ceiling glass walls, an architectural design desired by surveyed students and faculty. The building contains several collaborative study rooms that can be reserved by groups of students. These rooms contain projectors and white-board walls and are located within the multiple levels of the library, levels A, B, C, and D, with the main atrium in between. The building is also equipped with a reading room, sitting 100 students, six seminar rooms, and a café, as well as the Milton S. Eisenhower's special collections department. This department provides students and faculty direct interaction with preserved sources and artifacts to use for research or personal observation.
  This attachment to the library has allowed room for more than a third of the existing seating capacity. Additionally, the building features various interactive forms of technology, ranging from projectors to video equipment for student use.
caption: This is the outside of the Brody Learning Commons at the Homewood Campus of The Johns Hopkins University.
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