Yesterday Governor Laura Kelly joined higher education leaders from Wichita State University, the University of Kansas, and WSU Tech to break ground on the new $302 million Wichita Biomedical Campus. Kelly says the Wichita Biomedical Campus will revolutionize health care education and put Wichita on the map as a hub for health care and innovative scientific research. The new campus will become a central location for the WSU College of Health Professions and Speech Language Hearing Clinic, WSU Tech’s Health Care Program and the Wichita Campuses of KU School of Medicine and KU School of Pharmacy. It will join a string of health care facilities in downtown Wichita.
Both Wichita State President Rick Muma and KU Chancellor Doug Girod say the new campus will revolutionize the way health care professionals learn, research, innovate, and care for patients, and present students a leg up by being located with people they will work with every day. The biomedical campus is expected to bring 3,000 students, 200 faculty and staff, and 1,600 related jobs to the city’s core with future growth opportunities.
