THE MED SCHOOL MOVES IN
First-year medical students attending Dr. Inoue's histology lecture on the morning of January 31 had the honor of launching the new Medical Science Building on its educational mission. The administrative offices of the Medical School had moved in earlier, and during the next two weeks after the inaugural class the School's six departments in turn occupied the individual floors assigned to them. Very little was in perfect order when the ALUMNI MAGAZINE'S pictures were taken on Valentine's Day, but there was no disorder either. Students, faculty and researchers were busily at work, while all around them were painters, carpenters and workmen trying to make the elevators and air-conditioning work. In the shiny new surroundings, with eye-catching facilities and equipment on all sides, the atmosphere was a combination of happy faces, genteel commotion, and getting on with the day's work.
Each of the six departmental floors has, in part, a long hallway off which are located offices, studies, conference rooms and special laboratories for research work.
The Microbiology Department had the housekeeping problem of getting its glassware put away, so the teaching laboratory could be used.
For Dr. Wayne Thornburg, Associate Professor of Cytology, the moving problem was books, but having his own office was a cheerful reality.
The main lobby of the administration wing is on the building's third level.
Dr. Philip O. Nice conducting a microbiology class in the large lecture hall.
Dr. Kenneth Moore, pharmacology instructor, and Louise Williams, a research assistant, in one of the modern labs for staff research.
Polished woodwork from the Old Medical School is preserved in the administration conference room adjoining the Dean's office.
Three autoclaves in its sterilization room are big items of new equipment now enjoyed by the School's Microbiology Department
First-year students, relaxing between classes, are shown at one end of the Student Lounge off the main lobby.
First-year students, relaxing between classes, are shown at one end of the Student Lounge off the main lobby.
th-floor teaching lab for physiology, not yet fully equipped. The facilities on this floor have been provided by Fannie E. Rippel tion in memory of the late Donald Morrison, Provost of the College.
A three-part temperature control room, cold room, and freezer are located on the Pharmacology Department's fifth floor. Cold rooms are part of the facilities on most of the other floors in the Medical Science Building.
Another view o£ the microbiology teaching laboratory shown on the cover. Miss Eleanor Hoag, instructor, is at the right.
Dr. William O. Berndt, Instructor in Pharmacology, atwork on a project in the new fifth-floor radioisotope lab.
Research Fellow Stuart Hanson using an oscilloscol number of which are among the School's full equipment
Dr. Robert E. Kane, Assistant Professor of Cytology, shown at an electron microscope. One such microscope is now in operation and a second one will be installed by the Department.
Another cytologist, Hidemi Sato, working at the Medical School's polarizing microscope, an instrument perfected by the department chairman, Dr. Shinya Inoue, and making possible for the first time the viewing of living cells under ultra-microscopic magnification. This room must be as dust-free as possible.
One of the special labs for staff members showing the excellence of new facilities.
Prof. Jane Sands Robb, pharmacologist, with an Ultraphot microscope for the study of tissues.
A typical faculty office is occupied by Dr. Roger P. Smith, instructor in toxicology.
