BRIEF: Lauder-Fischer Hall to open today

The facility, under construction since last February, will house the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and the Real Estate Center. The Institute offers a 24-month international studies program which leads to a master of business administration from the Wharton School and a master of arts from the School of Arts and Sciences. The half-hour ceremony will include speeches by President Sheldon Hackney, Wharton Dean Thomas Gerrity, Arts and Sciences Dean Hugo Sonnenschein, Trustee Alvin Shoemaker, and Leonard Lauder and Arthur Fischer, Wharton graduates and corporate leaders whose names the building bears. The ceremony is open to the public. -- Drew Zoller