Facilities Boston, MA Campus Facility Information Ronald A. Matricaria Academic and Student Center To accommodate the growing number of students as well as the growth in program offerings, MCPHS added the 93,000square-foot Ronald A. Matricaria Academic and Student Center on the Longwood campus in 2004. The Center preserves the signature façade and columns of the George Robert White building within a dramatic glass atrium while enhancing the University’s capacity for teaching, scholarly research, and student development. The building features: •
laboratory space for chemistry, professional pharmacy practice, and pharmaceutics;
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a library, making possible state-of-the-art learning and information resources;
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two floors of apartment-style student residence space;
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two office suites;
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twelve large, modern classrooms; and
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extensive quiet study areas and several group study rooms.
George Robert White Building Constructed through the generosity of Boston philanthropist George Robert White, the building bearing his name houses administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, laboratories, lecture halls, White Hall, and the Forsyth Dental Hygiene Clinic. The state-of-the-art dental hygiene clinic and teaching laboratory opened in 2005 and, occupying a large portion of the first floor, is named for benefactor and Forsyth alumna Esther M. Wilkins DH ’39, DMD. In addition to the dental hygiene clinic, the White Building houses several teaching and research laboratories, multiple classrooms, and faculty and administrative office suites. In 2009, the Center for Academic Success and Enrichment was created to house an array of academic support services in a renovated suite on the first floor of this historic building. In 2011, a state-of-the-art diagnostic medical imaging suite was completed to support the University’s Diagnostic Medical Sonography program—the first in Massachusetts to offer a bachelor’s degree in this discipline. John Richard Fennell Building and Theodore L. Iorio Research Center This building is an eight-story, mixed-use facility of approximately 230,000 square feet, completed in 1996. The John Richard Fennell Building occupies the east end; the west end is the Theodore L. Iorio Research Center. This structure offers classrooms, conference rooms, the Cardinal lounge, faculty offices, a residence hall, a coffee shop, and underground parking for faculty and staff. The Rombult Atrium adjoining the White Building is used for group study and social events. Several research and teaching laboratories also are housed in the building, including laboratories for anatomy and physiology, biology and microbiology, cell culture, biology research, physiology research, pharmacology research, behavioral and neuropharmacology, chemistry, physics, and nuclear medicine. The Channing Laboratory division of Brigham and Women’s Hospital occupies the building’s west end through a long-term lease arrangement. Henrietta DeBenedictis Library, Boston The library occupies the second floor of the Matricaria Academic and Student Center and provides open and comfortable seating areas to accommodate various styles of student study, including group study rooms. The Henrietta DeBenedictis Library maintains research-level collections in pharmacy, pharmacy education, and drug information, as well as core collections in clinical medicine, nursing, and the allied health sciences. Most of the collections have been converted into an electronic format, enabling users to access material remotely and from all three campuses. More than 49,000 journals are made available through a combination of owned subscriptions and titles made accessible through the library’s full-text databases. In addition to the electronic journal collections, the library has access to more than 202,000 e-books and 188 databases. Holdings are further extended through membership in the Fenway Library Organization (FLO), a group of 10 full-member libraries and 27 affiliate members that share resources and allows the MCPHS community to directly borrow material. In addition, FLO supports an online public catalog of more than one million volumes held by member institutions. Taking advantage of Boston’s extensive research universities and colleges, the MCPHS libraries offer an interlibrary loan service that provides timely delivery of journal articles and books, usually at no cost to our students, faculty, and staff. Professional librarians offer on-campus and virtual reference and information literacy instruction.
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