Expansion and Growth:

Between 1972 and 1988, improvements valued at more than $100 million were completed on the 60-acre main campus located three miles north of downtown Dallas. Its buildings now have more than two million square feet of space for teaching and research. Two recent building projects on the main campus are the Zale Lipshy University Hospital, a 160-bed teaching and referral hospital, and the Charles Cameron Sprague Clinical Science Building, together valued at over $50 million.

In 1986, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute opened a research facility on the UT Southwestern campus. Concentrating on molecular biology, it has brought outstanding scientists to head laboratories in their specialties. These investigators simultaneously hold full-time faculty positions in the departments and programs of the medical and graduate schools. In late 1987, a nearly 30-acre tract was given to UT Southwestern by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for future campus expansion. The Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers Magnetic Resonance Center was constructed on this site in 1988-89, and completion of the new Simmons Biomedical Research Building is scheduled for 1992-93.

last edited: 23 August 2003