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Spurgeon Gray Hall College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Houston, Texas
Texas Southern University
Completion Date: January 2003
Construction Costs: $5.6 Million
Size: 16,500 sq ft
Project Summary
This new 16,500 square foot addition to the existing Gray Hall Pharmacy Building is a two-level facility connected directly to the existing building's circulation system on both levels. The two levels of the new building are connected by two stair towers and one hydraulic elevator.
The first floor contains three BL-2 Labs, the Vivarium, and Lab Support areas. The second floor contains two BL-2 Labs, 1 BL-3 Lab, and common areas for Cell Sorting equipment, AV Lab, Cold Room, Hot Lab, Lab Support and miscellaneous office and storage areas.
College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
This is one of the premier schools of Pharmacy in the Nation producing a majority of the minority Pharmacists in the state of Texas. The college of Pharmacy in particular has a rigorous program that produces soundly trained and highly skilled graduates with remarkable pass rates in the North American Pharmacy Licensure Examination (Naplex). Currently the dean of students is Dr. Barbara Hayes. The college has a state of the art campus in the highly acclaimed Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston, Texas, that is designed to train the entry level and post-baccalaurate Doctor of Pharmacy students in a setting that imparts the most pertinent clinical knowledge in academia. This is attained in conjunction and collaboration with the other medical institutions in the TMC center.
There are several professional organizations on campus like the American Pharmacy Association (APhA), American Hospital System Pharmacist (ASHP) and many others. These organizations play an integral role with the clinical academic course-work in sharpening the skills of its members to the utmost perfection befitting the academically saturated air that is ever blanketing the campus with a high octane intensity. The class of 2009, led by its able president who was anointed rather than appointed, by the guiding hand of Dr. Doris Jackson, has served as a model unit deserving of emulation and adulation by all and sundry in the program in particular and the school at large.
The program has an intricate network of affiliated community, hospital, retail and private clinics that serve as the on-site training ground for final year students who are poised to graduate after completing the well structured and detailed one year clinical rotation program. The college of Pharmacy admits about 125 students every fall semester or each year. The students are formally inducted into the program through the White Coat ceremony, a solemn and pertinent part of getting inculcated into the process of mentally charting one's excursion through the choppy waters that constitute the program. It is a pedagogic heaven for the scientists at heart and humanity's servants at work.
Client Contact
Texas Southern University
3100 Cleburne Ave. |
Houston, TX 77004
Ron Butler,
Project Manager
Tele. (713) 313-7375
Dean, College of Pharmacy