Inside Duke Medicine
Student donation at Blue Tie/White Coat Celebration
posted March 22nd, 2010
Chancellor Victor Dzau, Davison Council President Philip Lehman and Dean Nancy Andrews hold the council's Learning Center donation.
On Friday, March 12, 2010, more than 350 Duke medical students joined Medical Alumni Council members and local alumni at the Angus Barn restaurant for the first Blue Tie/White Coat Celebration. The networking event was an occasion for the students to present Dean Nancy Andrews and Chancellor Victor J. Dzau with a check for $25,000 to support the School of Medicine Learning Center fundraising initiative.
The Learning Center, currently in design and planning, will be a futuristic new building that will replace the School’s outdated learning spaces in 2012 or 2013. Watch a video flyby of the new building in this video clip from the dean’s State of the School address in February (flyby starts at 3:23).
The Office of Alumni Affairs also announced the Davison Council Challenge, in which the medical students will attempt to raise an additional $25,000 dollars over the next five years for the Learning Center. Alumni Affairs has agreed to support the Challenge by assisting the students in raising a matching donation of $50,000 from alumni, faculty and staff of the school, for a total of $100K. That amount will let the students name an area in the new building, allowing them to leave behind a legacy for future generations of students and young alumni.