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Tufts University - Beyond Boundaries Newsletter Winter 2008 - Index

A transformative gift by
the Jaharis Family Foundation
will advance medical education
and the quality of life for Tufts’
medical students.
The projects will impact every facet of daily life and learning.
At a Glance…
Through December 2007, the university has raised
more than $725 million toward Beyond Boundaries’
$1.2 billion goal.
Gifts are designated to three main areas:
Gift Area Campaign Goal To Date
Additions to Endowment $720M (60%) $364M
Capital Projects1 $252M (21%) $52M
Current Operations2 $240M (19%) $310M
1. Includes construction of new buildings and enhancement of
facilities.
2. Includes goal of $120M for Annual Fund gifts. To date, more than
$73M has been contributed by more than 78,000 donors. Annual
Fund gifts are projected to exceed $16M in FY08.
Winter 2008 News of the Campaign for Tufts
A Family Tree
Grows in Boston
The largest gift in the history
of Tufts University
School of Medicine, a
$15 million contribution
from the Jaharis Family
Foundation, will transform medical
education and the quality of life
among medical students.
The Jaharis gift will have an
immediate impact by fueling the
renovation of the Arthur M. Sackler
Center for Health Communications
at 145 Harrison Avenue, and the
construction of a clinical skills and
medical simulation center around
the corner at 35 Kneeland Street.
The Sackler Center renovations
will modify existing space into a
modern campus center with a function
hall, fitness center, lounge, and
café. Two floors of the building will
be converted to four “Learning
Communities” with smaller seminar
rooms and flexible classrooms
to accommodate shifts in today’s
instruction styles. The new clinical
skills and medical simulation
center will feature exam rooms with
computerized mannequins to help
students develop hands-on physical
diagnosis and clinical skills.
Tufts has also committed to raise
an additional $7.5 million so that
a portion of the Jaharis gift can be
released for the endowment of 15
half-tuition scholarships once the
construction projects are complete.
“The broad impact that this
philanthropy will have on the
school is remarkable, as it will com-
pletely change the student experience,”
says Dr. Michael Rosenblatt,
the dean of the medical school. “It
builds momentum toward all that
we in the Tufts medical community
are working to achieve through our
collective strategic plan for medical
education and research.” Dr. Amy
Kuhlik, dean of students, adds:
“The campus center will offer our
students a true home base. Many
of our students commute each day
from quite a distance. Now they
will have a place to study, eat, and
congregate with each other. The
outstanding design will provide
great opportunities for interacting
with faculty and fostering important
mentoring relationships.”
The gift is the latest from the
foundation to Tufts’ health sciences
campus. Dr. Steven Jaharis, M87,
(above left) is a member of the Board
of Overseers to the medical and
Sackler schools. His father, Michael,
(above right) founder and chairman
emeritus of Kos Pharmaceuticals
Inc.—and a noted philanthropist in
the areas of science, medicine, and
the preservation of antiquities—is
chairman of the Board of Overseers
for the medical and Sackler schools,
and a Tufts trustee emeritus. The
family earlier provided the naming
gift for the Jaharis Family Center on
Harrison Avenue.
For full coverage of the
project, visit the School of
Medicine’s website: www.tufts.
edu/med/news/buildingourfuture
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