A $3.2 million building expansion program, in progress for the past two years, has been completed at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. Included in the building addition, which will be completely occupied and in service by the beginning of the coming academic year in September, will be expanded medical science laboratory research space, allowing expansion of research efforts and more thorough use of existing laboratory and teaching areas. The building program embodied construction of three five-story additions to the School of Medicine building, located on the grounds of the Charity hospital of Louisiana at 1542 Tulane. The two new wing additions facing Tulane Avenue, were constructed atop existing three-story wings, and are devoted entirely to educational research activities.
The other addition, located on the river side of the building, contains two floors of research area and six levels of parking space, accommodating 85 automobiles. Principal occupants of the new research additions are the departments of anatomy, animal car, biochemistry, biostatistics, medicine, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otorhinolaryngology, pathology, physiology, surgery and tropical medicine. Work was begun in 1962 and it was financed by grants to LSU from the United State Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Louisiana State Bond and Building Commission. Total area in the new additions is in excess of 110,000 square feet
