VisionPlus Campaign Update
The College of Pharmacy’s VisionPlus Board, as part of UGA’s seven year Archway to Excellence capital campaign, exceeded its goal of raising $10 million for the Pharmacy South addition. By June 2008, alumni, corporations, and friends had generously donated $10.3 million, concluding the most successful campaign in the College’s history.
In 2007 the Georgia Legislature approved funding for a new $43.5 million, 93,288 square foot addition to be built on the south side of the Robert C. Wilson building. Groundbreaking took place in November 2007; completion is expected by summer 2009. The dedication of the new Pharmacy South addition is scheduled for September 10, 2009.
FIRST FLOOR
The First Floor consists of a 200-seat auditorium and a 6,104 net square foot Student Learning Center, with student
computer stations and eight small student group rooms. A Student Affairs suite of offices will also occupy this floor.
Other faculty and staff offices, totaling 6,192 net square feet, will be placed throughout the building.
SECOND FLOOR
The Second Floor contains a 200-seat auditorium, plus two 30-seat classrooms and a 15-person seminar room. The remaining
6,015 net square feet of space is devoted to the Pharmacy Care Center, which is a teaching area that includes a community
pharmacy, a hospital pharmacy, a sterile products room, an IV prep room and multi-purpose skills alcoves used for
compounding, patient examinations and patient counseling. An office suite is also planned, along with two student lounges.
The total net square footage devoted to classrooms is 11,314.
THIRD FLOOR
The Third Floor has a 30-seat classroom, a conference room, work space for graduate students and post¬doctoral associates,
and two open laboratory areas, large enough to accommodate six researchers. Tissue culture rooms, a hot lab, and an
autoclave room complete the available space.
FOURTH FLOOR
The Fourth Floor has work areas for graduate students and postdoctoral associates, a student lounge, a computer laboratory,
a dark room and a 24-seat classroom. In addition are open research laboratories for four researchers and a demonstration
laboratory. A total of 11,892 net square feet in the building is devoted to research laboratory space.
The new facility can accommodate expanded class sizes by 50 to 75 students, thereby allowing Georgia to retain more of the state’s top pharmacy students, alleviating the current shortage and meeting expected demand growth.
