One month and counting!

By Phil Schneider, UA College of Pharmacy, associate dean for academic and professional affairs



Expanding our offices in Phoenix is ahead of schedule!

We expect to be ready to occupy six new private and five modular offices in our expanded space in the TGen building, owned by the City of Phoenix, between Oct. 15 and 17. We hope to fill these new spaces over the next few months with faculty and staff as we expand our programs to the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. With the new space, our Phoenix base will include a reception area, a 600 sq. ft. conference room, 11 modular and six private offices.

We are also excited to be installing teleconference equipment: a 58-inch high definition plasma display screen and camera will better link the Tucson and Phoenix campuses.

Several College of Pharmacy folks are also working on committees making decisions about the two new buildings that will be on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The Health Sciences Education Building, about 300,000 sq. ft., will house faculty offices and classrooms for pharmacy, medical, nursing and other students in the health sciences, and will likely be done in the fall of 2012. The Arizona Biomedical Collaborative 2 Building, expected to open in the fall of 2013, will be approximately 400,000 sq. ft. dedicated for research faculty, postgraduate trainees, graduate students and research laboratories.


Photos: Phil Schneider (left) and Milfred Cody, supervisor of DPR Construction, Inc., the contractor for the office expansion; crew readying our new office space