Officials to Announce Large Gift to VCU

By Pamela DiSalvo Lepley
Division of University Relations

Virginia Commonwealth University officials and Gov. Bob McDonnell will announce a substantial donation to the VCU School of Medicine on Thursday, April 28.

The announcement will be made at 10:30 a.m. in Room 1009 of the Molecular Medicine Research Building, 1220 E. Broad St. Three parking spaces for media will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis in the 1200 block of East Broad Street.

The gift is one of the largest in the university’s history and comes during a time of great transition for the School of Medicine, which is constructing both a new curriculum that will transform how medical students learn, and a new, state-of-the-art, medical education building.

The 12-story, 200,000-square-foot building will bring together faculty, medical students, residents and practicing physicians in a state-of-the-art training hub that is being designed to create a new standard in medical education.  The interior has been planned to house the most significant renovation to the school’s curriculum in more than 30 years. 

The building also will enable the school to address the national and statewide physician shortage by accommodating a larger class size, from 200 to 250 -- increasing the total medical student body to 1,000.