Building for Student Success Veterinary Medical Learning Center UGA’s new Veterinary Medical Learning Center’s hospital space, nearly three times larger than the current hospital, has flexibility for existing needs and future expansion. When completed, the College of Veterinary Medicine will be able to increase enrollment, address problems of faculty and staff retention and recruitment, facilitate patient care, expand existing specialties, and develop new programs to keep up with medical advances.
Milestones in Medical Education The Georgia Regents University/ UGA Medical Partnership offers an unparalleled opportunity for the education of future physicians. On March 21, 2014, the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership’s inaugural class of students learned their residency
appointments for specialized training at some of the top teaching hospitals in the state and nation during its first Match Day ceremony. In May, the first class of Medical Partnership students graduated and joined the ranks of our nation’s physicians.
Science Learning Center Construction is underway on the 122,500-square-foot Science Learning Center. It is situated on South Campus adjacent to Pharmacy South and across from the Miller Plant Sciences Building. The facility will encompass 33 instructional labs, two 280-seat lecture halls and two 72-seat classrooms. The center addresses the deficit of modern teaching laboratory space and ensures lab course availability.
More prospects for medical students, public health students, and faculty to interact are being developed by the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership. As early as next year, St. Mary’s Health Care System could conduct Athens’ first medical residency program. Graduate medical education or residency programs are close on the horizon at other northeast Georgia hospitals. Expanding medical education will ensure that more physicians educated in Georgia will remain in the state to complete their initial residency training.
Business Learning Community
Ensuring Exceptional Faculty
The Terry College Business Learning Community broke ground for its first phase of construction, Correll Hall, named in honor of Terry alumnus and former Georgia-Pacific CEO A.D. “Pete” Correll and his wife, Ada Lee. Correll Hall will be the new home of Terry’s graduate programs. The 75,000-square-foot structure will also house MBA career services, the full-time MBA program, and the dean’s suite. 12
The President’s 2014 Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative has allocated $2.2 million to fund 16 new faculty positions to enhance teaching, service, and research in fields that are of emerging statewide and global significance. The initiative capitalizes on areas of strength at UGA and places the University in a stronger position to attract research funding while broadening the range of expertise UGA offers to students and the state. The new positions include faculty in poultry health and production, digital humanities, biological imaging and brain mapping, emerging infectious diseases, housing for older adults, and health policy, among others. The 2014
“The academic core of this University depends extensively upon the faculty we are able to recruit and retain.” JWM hiring initiative builds upon previous efforts to replenish tenure-track faculty positions that were lost through attrition in the wake of the Great Recession. The addition of the 16 new positions brings the total number of new faculty positions created in the past four years to more than 100.