East Carolina University breaks ground on new medical school facility
East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, has broken ground on a $265 million learning center for the Brody School of Medicine.
The Duplin Times reports that the 195,000-square-foot Center for Medical Education will rise across the street from the existing medical school on the university's Health Sciences Campus in Greenville.
The North Carolina General Assembly allocated an initial $215 million for the building in 2021, and in 2023 added $50 million.
The new facility is expected to increase the medical school’s enrollment from 80 to 120.
The project is a seven-story structure connected to the existing Brody Medical Sciences Building and will include:
- Two large learning studios that can seat up to 500 people in a lecture/banquet-style setting or transform into classrooms, meeting and seminar spaces, seating up to 136 in each studio.
- Highly flexible spaces including huddle rooms, pod-like collaboration spaces and small-group student spaces.
- Roof terrace and green space.
- A new home for simulation and standardized patient programs.
- Four student houses: common spaces that will serve as a “home” for students to study, including lockers, changing areas and study carrels.
- Gross anatomy space to include 28 beds.
- One large instructional lab classroom for neurology, pathology and immunology with seating up to 144.
- Lawn space for special events and ceremonies.
- A 500-car parking garage.
Construction on the building is set to be completed during the 2027-28 academic year.