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School of Veterinary Medicine's $100 Million Campaign

The School of Veterinary Medicine launched a $100 million fund raising campaign on April 17. It is the largest fund raising campaign in the School's history. During the quiet phase of the campaign the School raised $79 million toward the goal and anticipates to end the campaign in 2006.

"The centerpiece of this campaign is the Teaching and Research Building for our Philadelphia campus," says Dr. Alan M. Kelly, The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine. "This building is vital to us as we expand our mission of teaching, research, and healing. Most of our classrooms are antiquated, many research laboratories are old and cramped, and our clinicians are in overcrowded offices. To maintain our leadership role in veterinary medicine, we need this new building."

The building, estimated to cost about $54 million, will serve as the new academic center of the school in Philadelphia. It will contain five floors, including a vivarium in the basement, two floors of teaching and library space, and two floors of research laboratories. Construction will begin next month. The building will be ready for occupancy in the fall of 2006.

Other important goals of the campaign include the construction and outfitting of the Scott Equine Sports Medicine Building at New Bolton Center, construction of an imaging and radiation therapy center at the Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, additional endowed professorships, increase in scholarship endowments, faculty research fund endowment, and a host of other projects benefiting students, patients, and the advancement of veterinary and human medicine.