Artistist rendering of the new School of Dentistry Building

Helping to nurture the next leaders in Georgia and the country

Our number-one priority – a new building to house the school – is moving steadiliy forward in the initial stages of fundraising. In 2008 Gov. Sonny Perdue approved our $70 million funding request for the building, and now we are working hard to identify additional funding resources. We will break ground on the new building in 2009. We hope you will join in our excitement of a new state-of-the-art facility incorporating the latest technology to deliver didactic and clinical programs. As has been stated many times before, we need a facility that will reflect the quality of our faculty, staff and students.

Medical and Education Commons
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted to authorize the $105 million project. The 186,000-square-foot building will house specialized teaching and administrative space for the School of Medicine and will feature classrooms, group study rooms and space for academic support and student service units that will be shared among the medical and dental schools. The commons building and the university’s new School of Dentistry facility will both be located on the former Gilbert Manor property.

Atlanta-based architectural firm, HOK Group Inc., has been awarded a contract to design the Medical Education Commons building at the Medical College of Georgia.

Other projects
Also included in the project is money to renovate a 24,000-square-foot area in the Sanders Research and Education Building that houses anatomy labs used by most MCG students. Two histology labs on the building’s third floor were also recently converted to a new 3,100-square-foot anatomy lab. The recent renovation and planned conversion are necessary to accommodate increasing class sizes in the medical and dental schools.

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