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University of Tennessee Health Science Center Breaks Ground for

 

New College of Pharmacy Building

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Who:              The University of Tennessee Health Science Center speakers include:

UT President John Petersen, PhD

UT Health Science Center Interim Chancellor Hershel P. Wall, MD,

UT College of Pharmacy Dean Dick Gourley, PharmD   

                       

What:             Groundbreaking for New College of Pharmacy Building on the UT-Baptist Research Park Campus

 

When:            10:00 a.m., Friday, December 7, 2007

 

Where:          Corner of Madison and Dudley

                        Parking available at 930 Madison and Monroe and South Dudley parking garage.

 

Why:              Currently, spread across six different buildings on the UTHSC campus, the growing College of Pharmacy can now be housed in one facility.  The six-story, 191,000-square-foot building will include lecture halls, classrooms and conference rooms equipped for distance learning, research laboratories, a computer laboratory, and office and student space.

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As the flagship statewide academic health system, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is focused on a four-tier mission of education, research, clinical care and public service, all in support of a single goal: to improve the health of Tennesseans.  Offering a broad range of postgraduate training opportunities, the main campus, which includes six colleges, is located in Memphis.  UTHSC has additional College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy campuses in Knoxville and a College of Medicine campus in Chattanooga.  For more information, visit www.uthsc.edu.

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