MCPHS Press Releases

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MCPHS Opens Richard E. Griffin Academic Center

Just after the New Year, faculty and staff from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences moved into a brand new facility at 670 Huntington Ave. in Mission Hill.

“The Griffin Center was completed on time, and we’re very pleased with the overall outcome of the project,” said Richard Lessard, MCPHS Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer.

The striking, six-story, triangular building contains nearly 50,000 square feet of classrooms, faculty and staff offices, teaching laboratories, a technology center, a 230-seat auditorium and a top floor multi-function room with views of Downtown Boston. The new structure houses the College’s School of Nursing, School of Physician Assistant Studies, School of Radiologic Sciences, as well as offices for Government and Professional Affairs, Development and College Relations. All staff and faculty are moved into the new building, which was designed by Perkins+Will of Boston and built by Bond Brothers of Everett.

The facility is named for Richard Griffin of Bedford, New Hampshire. Mr. Griffin, founder of Critical Care Systems, Inc. in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a 1971 graduate of the College and a member of the Board of Trustees. “During this process, the Mission Hill community taught us some very important lessons – that Boston is a city of neighborhoods, places where people live and raise their families, and that institutions must develop projects that respect the scale and character of the surrounding community,” said MCPHS President Charles F. Monahan Jr. at the facility August 2007 ground breaking. “By housing state-of-the-art facilities for our nursing and physician assistant programs, the facility will pay dividends for many generations to come.”

Classes start in the Griffin Academic Center on Monday, January 26. The Office of Admission is also holding four welcome receptions at the Griffin Academic Center for Early Action candidates. The events will be held Monday, February 17 through February 20, 6 – 8 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet MCPHS faculty, staff, and deans – as well as other accepted students.

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