University of Nevada, Las Vegas Opens Medical Education Building

The University of Nevada opened the Medical Education Building in Las Vegas in October of 2022. Designed by TSK Architects and CO Architects, the five-story, 135,000-sf facility represents the first permanent home for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine. The highly collaborative building provides problem-based learning spaces, teaching labs, administrative offices, a student lounge, a fitness center, a café, and a triple-height forum for gatherings and events. Specialized training venues such as clinical skills labs, simulation suites, and virtual anatomy classrooms are collocated on a contiguous floor that sits six feet below grade, while a learning center with the latest digital media technologies spans the third and fourth levels. Accommodating future growth, the flexible structure features classrooms with operable partitions in order to serve class sizes of up to 180 students at a later date.

Supported by $25 million in state funding and $120 million in philanthropic contributions, the project was developed by Nevada Health and Bioscience Corporation as a public-private partnership. Ground was broken on the facility in October of 2020.