Coordinates: 55°56′46″N 3°11′17″W / 55.94611°N 3.18806°W / 55.94611; -3.18806 The Potterrow Mandela Centre or Potterrow Student Centre is a students' union building in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The building is operated by Edinburgh University Students' Association. The name "Potterrow" recalls a mediaeval suburb which stood outside the town walls. Its Victorian buildings and street layout disappeared when the University demolished the area for redevelopment in the mid 1960s.
Potterrow contains a variety of student entertainment and support services including a shop, a bank, two cafés, Edinburgh's largest nightclub, the University's Chaplaincy, The Advice Place and the main EUSA offices.
During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August, the building is used as a comedy venue under the name Pleasance Dome with five performing spaces, operated by the Pleasance Theatre Trust.
In 1986 students voted to rename the centre in honour of imprisoned anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela.
The building, with a distinctive large Plexiglas dome, was designed by noted architects Morris and Steedman and completed in 1973. The centre was refurbished in 2012.
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| Governance |
- General Council
- University Court
- Senatus Academicus
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| History |
- Academic dress
- Parliamentary constituency
- Edinburgh Seven
- Plinian Society
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| People |
- List of University of Edinburgh people
- List of University of Edinburgh medical people
- List of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh
- List of professorships at the University of Edinburgh
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Academic
Divisions |
College of Humanities
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- Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA)
- Business School
- Edinburgh College of Art (ECA)
- Economics
- New College, Edinburgh (School of Divinity)
- Health in Social Science
- Law
- Literatures, Languages and Cultures
- Moray House School of Education
- Nursing Studies
- Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- Social and Political Sciences
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- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM)
- Medical School
- Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
- Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine
- Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
- College of Science and Engineering
- Chemistry
- GeoSciences
- Informatics
- Physics and Astronomy
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| Facilities |
- Appleton Tower
- Bedlam Theatre
- Informatics Forum
- King's Buildings
- Edinburgh University Library
- McEwan Hall
- New College
- Centre for Open Learning
- Old College
- Pollock Halls
- Edinburgh University Press
- The Royal Observatory
- Talbot Rice Gallery
- St Cecilia's Hall
- St Leonard's Hall
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| Students |
- Students' Association
- Sports Union
- Association Football Club
- Boat Club
- Bedlam Theatre
- The Improverts
- Children's Holiday Venture
- Edinburgh University RFC
- Fresh Air
- The Journal (newspaper)
- Labour Students
- Meadows Marathon
- Music Society
- The Pleasance
- Potterrow Student Centre
- Royal Medical Society
- Socialist Society
- The Student (newspaper)
- Teviot Row House
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