Media Advisory: Groundbreaking to be Held on South Campus for Future Home of UB Pharmacy School

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking at 2 p.m. today (Friday, Sept. 11, 2009) on the South (Main Street) Campus for the building it will call home in 2012.

Named in honor of alumnus John N. Kapoor, Ph.D. '72, Kapoor Hall will become the first UB professional school in three decades to move onto the South Campus and back into the City of Buffalo. It will unite the pharmacy school with the other UB health sciences schools that make up UB's Academic Health Center: dental medicine, medicine, nursing, and public health and health professions.

It also is an example of UB's commitment to the environment: in constructing Kapoor Hall, UB is practicing sustainable architecture in its reuse and renovation of an existing South Campus building -- the former Acheson Hall.

Construction of Kapoor Hall is part of a much larger and ongoing effort to reinvest in UB's South Campus, under the UB 2020 plan. It also is a significant step forward for the pharmacy school, the university and for UB efforts to improve the quality of life in the University Heights neighborhood bordering the South Campus.

Press arrangements: Mary Cochrane in the Office of Development Communication at 881-1703 and 374-2261 onsite and John DellaContrada in the Office of University Communications at 645-4601 and 361-3006 onsite.

Media parking is available in the Parker Hall lot located at the campus entrance off of Winspear Ave.

A map of the South Campus is available at http://www.buffalo.edu/buildings/maps/SouthCampus.pdf.