Campus Connection

In Dean Natalie Eddington’s first State of the School address on January 31st, she quieted many skeptics when she announced that ground would be broken in early summer for the new Pharmacy Hall addition.

The $62 million add-on will be built onto the north wall of the existing building and on top of a small courtyard and parking lot. The addition, which is slated for completion in 2010, will be seven stories high and connected by a glass atrium, of almost equal height, to the current building. The new facility will include classrooms, laboratories, offices and practice facilities that should ease the burden of enrollment increases and future plans to expand the program, in addition to allowing for the hiring of more faculty and staff for the School of Pharmacy.

Although the $2.2 million for planning the addition was incorporated into the budget for fiscal year 2007 by the Maryland House of Delegates Appropriations Committee, money for the actual construction had still not been secured. A temporary auditorium will be constructed before students return to classes in the fall of 2008 due to the demolition of Dean Leavitt Lecture Hall, PH 120, to make room for the addition. Early discussion on the matter indicates that the temporary lecture hall will be built on the second floor of Pharmacy Hall.

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