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A Campus Center: $9 million
In student exit surveys over the past
several years, one campus need has
definitively emerged and surpassed
all others: When asked, “What would
have improved your experience at
TCSVM?” students have responded in
increasing numbers, “A campus center
and athletic facilities.” (In 2005 and
2006, this response was the number-
one recommendation, given by more
than one third of the students). While
the Cummings School has clinical
and academic teaching facilities,
there remains an urgent need for non-
academic spaces—where students and
community members can congregate
between classes, relax, exercise,
study, eat, and manage their clubs and
volunteer activities. We are transforming
a historic four-story brick building in a
central location on the Grafton campus
into an epicenter for student social life.
In addition to flexible seating spaces
for informal meetings and socializing,
this signature building will include an
auditorium that will serve as a state-of-
the-art lecture hall; faculty offices;
a cafeteria; and exercise and locker
room facilities.
New Home for the Tufts
Ambulatory Service: $1.
million
The Tufts Ambulatory Service responds
to 3,000 farm calls annually, giving
students hands-on experience with
livestock from eastern Connecticut,
south central Massachusetts, and all
of Rhode Island. For more than 20
years, the service operated out of a
rented former farmhouse in Woodstock,
Connecticut. When the AVMA Council
on Education reaccredited the school
in 2005, it cited this inadequate facility
as the only significant issue requiring
prompt attention. Funding for a new
facility will help give one of Cummings’
most successful programs the home
it deserves.
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Additional Research Space:
$ million
Our success in research has come with
one significant challenge—finding the
space to sustain our rapid growth. This
contribution will allow us to enlarge
the laboratory space for our premier
program in infectious disease; to allow
for further development of our programs
in respiratory disease, reproductive
neurosciences, and gastrointestinal and
hepatic disease; and to expand other
promising programs in clinical research,
including comparative oncology and
clinical nutrition.
FACIlITIES: $19 MIllION
Additional Hospital
Equipment, Technology,
and Space: $ . million
To truly go “beyond boundaries” in
the medical care of our patients, our
hospitals increasingly depend on the
latest equipment and technology. The
Foster Hospital for Small Animals and the
Hospital for Large Animals, for instance,
have revolutionized their diagnostic
capability for our neurology, emergency,
oncology, and surgery services with the
addition of a new 2,100-square-foot MRI
facility. Retaining excellence in diagnostic
imaging requires an ongoing commitment
of significant resources.
BUIlDING AND ENHANCING