The Big Idea: A Medical School in Austin

By Lynn Freehill in Nov | Dec 2011, The Big Idea on October 27, 2011 at 1:05 pm | No Comments

UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa has named a high-tech, research-intensive medical campus in Austin a priority, and state Sen. Kirk Watson has a plan to make it a reality. Austin is among the nation’s largest cities without a medical school, and the University is one of few top-flight public universities without one, too. Is it key to becoming the nation’s premier public research university?

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