The Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine works hard to provide top-quality facilities for both living and learning. With the help of our donors, we invest strategically in the spaces and places that promise practical benefits to our community.

On May 8, 2025, the School celebrated the ribbon cutting for the Rod Hochman Family Clinical Skills & Simulation Center, marking a substantial upgrade in the education and training facilities for our students.

We are pleased to announce a new fundraising initiative for the creation of the new medical campus Catrambone Fitness Center. Thanks to our generous Dean’s Advisory Board member Richard J. Catrambone, MD, DMD ‘92 and Sophia Catrambone, we have the first $1M pledge towards the project, but we need your help to make a medical campus fitness facility a reality for our students!  Please support the creation of Medical Campus Fitness Facility

Other recent projects, made possible with donors’ help, we have substantially improved, and continue to upgrade, the Gross Anatomy Lab and the Team-Based Learning Lab.  A generous estate gift from the Miselis family—longtime friends of BUSM—supported the recent renovation of the Alumni Medical Library, including the creation of extensive new study areas. We are also grateful for our new Godley Digital Media Studio.

In 2012, for example, thanks in large part to philanthropic support, we opened our Medical Student Residence (MSR)—a state-of-the-art, nine-story building that today houses more than 200 students. Safe, convenient, and attractive, it is a vibrant hub of student life on the Medical Campus. The below-market rent allows our students to save meaningful sums they otherwise would likely have had to borrow.

A fourth-year student ultrasounds the wrist of a first-year student during anatomy lab.

Still, we must keep improving our living, learning, and study areas, and we welcome your support. This support, which we recognize with prominent naming opportunities, helps us modernize our facilities while allowing us to redirect operating dollars to other vital areas, including scholarships, research, and other investments.

Learn more about our current facilities priorities and how you can support them.

Considering a gift in support of our facilities? Contact the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Development Office.