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South Texas Medical School is chartered |
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First class of 15 students is admitted to the Medical School; temporarily housed at Trinity University |
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Medical
School and Bexar County Teaching Hospital (now University Hospital)
are dedicated
Medical School opens its doors to first class |
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Legislature authorizes creation of Dental School |
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First
Dental School class of 16 admitted
Legislature authorizes School of Nursing |
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School
of Allied Health Sciences and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
created
Institution is officially designated The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Frank Harrison, M.D., Ph.D., appointed first president |
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Dental
School building dedicated
School of Nursing building dedicated |
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Responsibility for the School of Nursing is transferred to the U. T. Health Science Center from the U. T. Nursing School at Austin |
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John
P. Howe, III, M.D., appointed president
Dolph Briscoe, Jr., Library dedicated |
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Department of Surgery begins heart transplantation program |
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Gift of $15 million from H. Ross Perot finances creation of Institute of Biotechnology |
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Hayden
Head Building, home of the Institute of Biotechnology, dedicated at
the Texas Research Park
Robert F. McDermott Clinical Sciences Building dedicated |
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National Institutes of Health funds HSC researchers’ work on the Human Genome Project |
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South Texas/Border Region (STBI) Health Education Initiative begins |
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Building extension to the School of Nursing dedicated |
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Allied
Health/Research Building dedicated
State Legislature authorizes creation of a Regional Academic Health Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (RAHC), to be administered by the Health Science Center’s Medical School |
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Health
Science Center is designated to receive a $200 million public endowment
from the State of Texas to establish a Children’s Cancer Research
Institute
Construction begins on new South Texas Centers for Biology in Medicine at the Texas Research Park |
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Groundbreaking ceremony held for RAHC Medical Education Division in Harlingen Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., appointed president. Dedication ceremony held for the SBC Teleconference Center, and for the South Texas Centers for Biology in Medicine, both facilities at the Texas Research Park |
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2001
Groundbreaking ceremony held for the Children's Cancer Research Center
at the North Campus. Investiture ceremony held for the 3rd president of the University, Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D. |
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One thousand people, including Gov. Rick Perry,
attend the dedication of the Regional Academic
Health Center's Medical Education
Division in Harlingen Health Science Center breaks ground for the RAHC Medical Research Division in Edinburg South Texas leaders dedicate the D.D. Hachar Building, the first building of the Health Science Center's Laredo Extension Campus |
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Health Science Center breaks ground for the
Sam and Ann Barshop Center for Longevity and
Aging Studies, a new facility in the Texas
Research Park Health Science Center receives largest grant to date for a $37 million study of small subcortical strokes, the most common type of stroke in South Texas Health Science Center and UT San Antonio sign an agreement to establish the San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, a new collaborative research and education partnership President Cigarroa announces a $300 million initiative to build a Research Tower in the South Texas Medical Center and recruit leading scientists for it |
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Health Science Center dedicates $50 million Children's
Cancer Research Institute, where scientists
will study formation and development of cancer in
children and adults Health Science Center announces it received largest amount of research funding of any South Texas university or institution in fiscal 2003, garnering a record $189 million |
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President Cigarroa is joined by Senator Kay
Bailey Hutchison, and Sam and Ann Barshop to dedicate
the Barshop Institute on the Texas Research Park Campus First Lady Laura Bush presents a coveted national award to the Regional Academic Health Center Medical Library for outreach to the region
The Health Science Center announces it received more than $88
million in National Institutes of Health awards in fiscal year 2004,
an increase of 7.5 percent over the previous year and 84 percent
higher than FY 1999 |
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Contact Office of External Affairs University Information and Disclamer © 2004 UTHSCSA. Updated 22 April 2004. |