School Tour

32-Seat Classroom
All classrooms, from the smaller 32-seat ones (shown above) to the large 200 seat lecture halls, can be used for video conferencing as well as lecture recording via Mediasite for viewing over the internet. The classrooms have high-definition auto-tracking camera, as well as, annotation devices that allow faculty to write on and highlight slides and other content with a specialized pen.

80-Seat Lecture Hall
The 80-seat lecture halls were designed to promote interactive class discussion, ideal for case studies and small seminars. These spaces also are ideal for alumni and friends to gather for networking, continuing education programs, and professional meetings.

200-Seat Lecture Halls (1 of 2)
Twenty-one rooms are dedicated to instruction, including two 200-seat lecture halls, affording students and faculty ample space for large lectures and small discussions, independent study, and for work groups to meet.

200-Seat Lecture Halls (2 of 2)
Twenty-one rooms are dedicated to instruction, including two 200-seat lecture halls, affording students and faculty ample space for large lectures and small discussions, independent study, and for work groups to meet.

A/V Control Room (1 of 2)
The building's audiovisual control room serves as its technological nerve center, linking classrooms and allowing faculty and staff to focus on teaching and learning.

A/V Control Room (2 of 2)
The building's audiovisual control room serves as its technological nerve center, linking classrooms and allowing faculty and staff to focus on teaching and learning.

Model Pharmacy
The model pharmacy is equipped with an advanced dispensing system and with document and bar code scanning capabilities. It can support up to 26 students at one time. The lab also has an automated dispensing device, a Script Pro SP 50, which is capable of storing and dispensing the 50 most common medications. The drug storage area has a wide selection of medications and dosage forms that students will encounter in practice.

Institutional Pharmacy (1 of 3)
The windows in the model pharmacy and patient interaction lab face into the new institutional pharmacy. The new IV room supports up to 20 students learning aseptic technique. Two of the hoods have a video camera that allows more students to view the technique being demonstrated in the hood. The institutional pharmacy has a unit dose area, a medication cart, and a Pyxis device so students can familiarize themselves with technology.

Institutional Pharmacy (2 of 3)
The windows in the model pharmacy and patient interaction lab face into the new institutional pharmacy. The new IV room supports up to 20 students learning aseptic technique. Two of the hoods have a video camera that allows more students to view the technique being demonstrated in the hood. The institutional pharmacy has a unit dose area, a medication cart, and a Pyxis device so students can familiarize themselves with technology.

Institutional Pharmacy (3 of 3)
The windows in the model pharmacy and patient interaction lab face into the new institutional pharmacy. The new IV room supports up to 20 students learning aseptic technique. Two of the hoods have a video camera that allows more students to view the technique being demonstrated in the hood. The institutional pharmacy has a unit dose area, a medication cart, and a Pyxis device so students can familiarize themselves with technology.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination "OSCE" Suite (1 of 3)
This ten-room, state of the art suite located in Pharmacy Hall South, is designed to provide a formative clinical practice experience to expose students to a "real world" clinical situation that typifies the pharmacist's expanding role in direct patient care.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination "OSCE" Suite (2 of 3)
This ten-room, state of the art suite located in Pharmacy Hall South, is designed to provide a formative clinical practice experience to expose students to a "real world" clinical situation that typifies the pharmacist's expanding role in direct patient care.

Objective Structured Clinical Examination "OSCE" Suite (3 of 3)
This ten-room, state of the art suite located in Pharmacy Hall South, is designed to provide a formative clinical practice experience to expose students to a "real world" clinical situation that typifies the pharmacist's expanding role in direct patient care.

Patient Interaction Room
This area can support up to 48 students engaged in patient counseling and other active learning activities. This area has multiple uses with each table having a removable divider, and outlets that can support student laptops and small group work.

Seminar Rooms
Smaller seminar rooms provide an LCD display that can be used for presentations or even group videoconferences with an available videoconferencing cart. These 14-seat rooms are used for discussion groups, study sessions, and small group projects.

Pharmacy Hall Atrium (1 of 2)
The atrium is the central gathering place for the school. It boasts a large lounge and multi-purpose area that can accommodate up to 172 students at one time. This is a high profile area that will be used for many school-wide functions.

Pharmacy Hall Atrium (2 of 2)
The atrium in Pharmacy Hall is often a hub for various events. There is a large kitchen adjacent to the lounge.

Student Lounge & Gallery Area (1 of 3)
Located off the main corridor on the 1st floor of Pharmacy Hall these lounge areas offer the students a place to relax, gather for discussion and enjoy a meal. A fully equipped kitchen for students located off of the student lounge serves as a prep space for school-wide functions. The large audio visual wall consists of 9 large LCD screens which display TV feeds, keeping the students up to date on current events. The gallery area offers sofas, lounge chairs, and small tables with task lighting, intended to be a perfect place to study.

Student Lounge & Gallery Area (2 of 3)
Located off the main corridor on the 1st floor of Pharmacy Hall these lounge areas offer the students a place to relax, gather for discussion and enjoy a meal. A fully equipped kitchen for students located off of the student lounge serves as a prep space for school-wide functions. The large audio visual wall consists of 9 large LCD screens which display TV feeds, keeping the students up to date on current events. The gallery area offers sofas, lounge chairs, and small tables with task lighting, intended to be a perfect place to study.

Student Lounge & Gallery Area (3 of 3)
Located off the main corridor on the 1st floor of Pharmacy Hall these lounge areas offer the students a place to relax, gather for discussion and enjoy a meal. A fully equipped kitchen for students located off of the student lounge serves as a prep space for school-wide functions. The large audio visual wall consists of 9 large LCD screens which display TV feeds, keeping the students up to date on current events. The gallery area offers sofas, lounge chairs, and small tables with task lighting, intended to be a perfect place to study.

Student Center
The SMC Campus Center serves as UMB’s town square, fostering collaboration, encouraging health and wellness, housing student organizations and services, providing recreation and relaxation and offering outstanding food and dining venues. With the SMC Campus Center’s wealth of recreational, educational, and programmatic opportunities, the UMB community is able to come together at the very heart of the campus, sharing knowledge and ideas across curricular disciplines with an eye toward bridging diverse personal, educational, and professional backgrounds.

Fitness Center (1 of 3)
The 60,000 square feet SMC Campus Center facility includes a 25-yard recreational swimming pool, a 7,000-square-foot fitness center, a spinning studio, several multipurpose rooms, two basketball courts, two racquetball/squash courts, an elevated running track, space for power lifting, and state-of-the-art cardiovascular and weight equipment with audiovisual enhancements.

Fitness Center (2 of 3)
The 60,000 square feet SMC Campus Center facility includes a 25-yard recreational swimming pool, a 7,000-square-foot fitness center, a spinning studio, several multipurpose rooms, two basketball courts, two racquetball/squash courts, an elevated running track, space for power lifting, and state-of-the-art cardiovascular and weight equipment with audiovisual enhancements.

Fitness Center (3 of 3)
The 60,000 square feet SMC Campus Center facility includes a 25-yard recreational swimming pool, a 7,000-square-foot fitness center, a spinning studio, several multipurpose rooms, two basketball courts, two racquetball/squash courts, an elevated running track, space for power lifting, and state-of-the-art cardiovascular and weight equipment with audiovisual enhancements.

Group Study Rooms
Group study rooms, which can accommodate up to eight, are located throughout Pharmacy Hall. Each room provides the same equipment and technology as the seminar rooms.

Computer and Networking Services Help Window
Located in the Pharmacy Learning Center, a dedicated staff supports educational technology as well as basic infrastructure — network, wireless, and synchronous/asynchronous technologies.

Typical Faculty Office
School facilities at both UMB and Shady Grove Campuses are adequately equipped and maintained to meet the teaching, research and service objectives of the School. Each full time faculty member has a private office which varies from 121 to 190 square feet with most measuring 135 square feet. On-site, full-time professional staff members typically have a private office as well.

Typical Research Laboratory (1 of 2)
The fourth through seventh floors of Pharmacy Hall consist of large, open laboratories to facilitate and foster collaborative research endeavors, specifically in the areas of structural biology, drug discovery, drug synthesis, drug metabolism, drug transporters, pharmacokinetics, and clinical/translational sciences.

Typical Research Laboratory (2 of 2)
The fourth through seventh floors of Pharmacy Hall consist of large, open laboratories to facilitate and foster collaborative research endeavors, specifically in the areas of structural biology, drug discovery, drug synthesis, drug metabolism, drug transporters, pharmacokinetics, and clinical/translational sciences.

Graduate Write-Up Area
Adjacent to the laboratories on each floor are write-up areas for students and postdoctoral fellows featuring outstanding natural lighting. These three 1000 square-foot rooms are ideal for encouraging research discussions and enhancing collaborative research projects.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
This facility provides support for a full range of NMR studies into the structure, dynamics, kinetics and reaction mechanisms of small organic molecules, pharmaceuticals, and biomolecules, as well as ligand binding studies and metabonomics. It houses a high-resolution NMR spectrometer for solution-state experiments. The Varian INOVA 500 MHz has four channels, a Z-axis gradient, and variable temperature control (-20 to 80 deg C); it is suitable for multi-dimensional, multi-nuclei and long-term experiments, as well as samples at low concentrations. Some of the nuclei available for detection are 1H, 2H, 13C, 15N and 31P.

X-ray Crystallography Core Facility
This facility was established in 2006 by the School of Pharmacy and Greenebaum Cancer Center, School of Medicine. Under supervision of the x-ray crystallography community and available to all the research groups inside/outside the campus, our facility provides X-ray crystallography services to study the structure-function relationship of proteins including instrument and expertise for automated protein crystallization screening, x-ray diffraction data collecting and processing from macromolecular single crystals.

Mass Spectrometry/Proteomic Facility
This facility's mission is to accelerate discovery by giving investigators access to cutting-edge technologies in mass spectrometry and proteomics. This Facility also provides researchers the opportunity and access to very sophisticated experiments by working closely in a true collaborative effort between faculty, students and staff. The laboratory is equipped to offer a broad range of support services with two state-of-the-art mass spectrometers.

Center for Computer-Aided Drug Design
This research center provides collaborative opportunities for biologists to apply computer-aided design approaches to their research programs. These efforts focus on identifying chemical compounds with desired biological activity and structural optimization of that activity. Chemical compounds created from these steps have the potential to be developed into research tools and therapeutic agents. Successful outcomes of this approach will include publication in scholarly journals and patent submissions on the biologically active compounds, laying the foundation for external funding via federal, private or industrial sources.

Center for Nanomedicine and Cellular Delivery
Research in this center is focused on the development of diagnostics for rapid monitoring, targeted cancer therapies, localized drug delivery, improved cell material interactions, scaffolds for tissue engineering, and gene delivery systems. Nanomedicine aims at controlling the rate and location (at the organ, tissue, cellular or subcellular levels) of drug release. This is particularly important to enhance the delivery of potent agents to their target while minimizing toxicity to other normal tissues. By targeting the delivery of therapeutic agents to their target site, it is possible to maximize efficacy of drugs and reduce toxicity.

Pharmaceutical Research Computing
This research center provides computer programming, data management and analytic support for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and other health services researchers. PRC offers a full array of data support services, including procuring data, investigating data integrity and completeness, cleaning data, creating and validating analytic files. In addition, PRC is able to provide input on pharmacotherapeutic issues, operationalize variable definitions (drugs, diagnosis, procedures), perform statistical analyses, participate in project management, and manuscript development.

The Maryland Poison Center
The call center operates 24/7, 365 days a year and is set up to facilitate pharmacy student and EMT training. The Maryland Poison Center is certified by the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) as a regional poison center providing poisoning triage, treatment, education, and prevention services to all Marylanders. This service is staffed by pharmacists and nurses who have specialized clinical toxicology training, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. All of our specialists have been certified by the AAPCC as Specialists in Poison Information. On average, each specialist has over 15 years of experience managing poisoning and overdose cases.

Pharmacy Hall
In 2010, the Pharmacy Hall addition opened, adding 128,951 square feet to the existing pharmacy building. This education and research building, outfitted with $20 million in scientific equipment, features multiple lecture halls, classrooms, and seminars rooms all equipped for distance learning. Also included is a dispensing laboratory with state of the art robotics, a model pharmacy, a patient interaction suite, and four floors of open research labs where faculty will work to discover new, novel and improved therapeutics.

Health Sciences Facility II
HSF II is the largest building on campus dedicated solely to biomedical research. The 101,000 square foot building provides 45 labs for the schools of Medicine and pharmacy offices, seminar rooms, and a 100-seat auditorium for lectures and presentations. It is also home to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center.

Saratoga Building
The Saratoga Building is a mixed-use building which includes a high-rise garage and offices for the University President, the School of Pharmacy's department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research and Maryland Poison Center, and Campus Facilities and Management. The school occupies the entire 12th floor of the building.

Pharmacy Learning Center
This building houses the school's skills lab, Computer and Network Services, and the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Resources. There is a recording studio and a help desk for students.