The view from our current location at the CHH. A beautiful sunrise over Mt. Hood in October.
Oregon is breathtaking in the fall. The sunrise over the construction site for the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building (CLSB) on a recent October morning was no exception. It has been two years since the ground breaking for the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building in Portland and it is well on its way to completion.
The CLSB is a joint venture between Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and the Oregon University System (OUS). It will house classes, faculty offices, research labs, and much more for OHSU, OSU, and PSU.
The construction is nearing completion of the new CLSB on the OHSU Campus in Portland.
The OSU College of Pharmacy is set to move the existing Portland campus from its current location in the Center for Health and Healing (CHH) to the CLSB in July of 2014. The spaces occupied by the College of Pharmacy in the CLSB will include a 150-person theater-style lecture hall, three 25-person classrooms/clinical practice labs, space for eight additional faculty members, and a six-fold increase in research laboratory space. Also, the new Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge, scheduled for completion in the fall of 2015, spans the Willamette River and will connect the CLSB with the new MAX station at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI).
The Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge spans the Willamette River.
The CLSB will be “home” to all third year pharmacy students beginning in 2014. OHSU will move its dentistry (DMD), Physician Assistant, and Radiation Technology programs to the CLSB, as well as the first two years of its medical (MD) program. PSU will be relocating its introductory biology and chemistry lectures and laboratories to the CLSB.
Having students in different healthcare professions learning alongside each other provides opportunities for innovative approaches to educate the next generation of healthcare professionals. Throughout their education, our students work and learn collaboratively, through a variety of interprofessional education (IPE) courses and outreach events, to develop a team-based, patient-focused approach to healthcare. By having a variety of learners together in the CLSB, our pharmacy students will be better prepared and poised to work together with other healthcare providers as professionals following graduation.
(All photos courtesy of Angie Mettie)
