About the School

About the Pharmacy Hall Addition

A seven-story, 112,565 square-foot education and research building equipped with $17 million in scientific and information technology equipment and furniture.

First Floor

  • 200-seat and 80-seat lecture halls and a 40-seat classroom
  • equipped with synchronous and asynchronous distance-
  • learning technology
  • Open staircase accessing second and third floors
  • Wireless Internet access throughout the building
  • 8 x 12-foot video information screen
  • Catering-quality kitchen facilities
  • Lounge for receptions, social gatherings, poster displays, career fairs, and organizational activities
  • Outdoor terrace featuring tables, chairs and vegetation

Second Floor

  • 200+ seat lecture hall and 76-seat classroom equipped with synchronous and asynchronous distance-learning technology
  • Nine study rooms and five seminar rooms
  • A garden terrace with pharmaceutical related plants

Third Floor

  • Dispensing laboratory complete with state-of-the-art robotics
  • Patient interaction suite with space for 48 students to practice patient counseling
  • Institutional pharmacy with sterile preparations laboratory
  • Six seminar rooms
  • Dean’s suite and offices

Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Floors

  • Fully equipped eight-bay open laboratories on each floor with space for 32 scientists focused on life sciences research such as pharmacogenomics, clinical and translational research, drug discovery, and health assessment technology
  • Write-up areas overlooking research labs
  • Specialized equipment rooms
  • Faculty offices and state-of-the-art conference rooms

Seventh Floor

  • Laboratories equipped with 16 fume hoods for synthetic chemistry, drug discovery, and nanotechnology
  • Specialized mass spectrometry and imaging instruments for pharmacokinetic analysis and translational sciences