Saturday, June 14, 2025
6/14/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: 400 Lee Street N, Lewisburg, WV 24901 Project Director: Larry Ware, VP for Finance and Facilities Phone number: (304) 647-6220 Email address: lware@osteo.wvsom.edu Website: https://www.wvsom.edu WVSOM is requesting $325,000 to complete the planning and design phase of a larger project to build an addition to WVSOM’s Fredric W. Smith Science Building. The WVSOM Master Plan calls for construction of two new buildings in the next 10 years, one of them is this addition to the Science Building. WVSOM is seeking $325,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending for the design and engineering phase of this project to move it forward toward construction. The 28,480-square-foot Fredric W. Smith Science Building houses the modern gross anatomy lab along with a variety of laboratories where basic science and clinical faculty carry out research projects with medical students. It was originally completed in 1991, with a major addition built in 2007. WVSOM has outgrown the facility due to its expansion of research and planned program growth. WVSOM’s facility master plan identified the need to expand the Smith Science Building to accommodate new state-of-the-art research labs as well address the needs of its Clinical and Translational Science Center. The addition project also will provide an opportunity to address existing building deficiencies. It is important for the healthcare of West Virginians and residents of the United States that WVSOM maintain and expand its state-of-theart facilities to continue to train and graduate physicians who practice in the rural areas of the state, the Appalachian region, and across the U.S. Of West Virginia’s three medical schools, WVSOM is uniquely positioned to graduate physicians who will stay in the state to practice in their communities. WVSOM is West Virginia’s only stand-alone medical school, the only osteopathic school, and the only one created specifically to train physicians to serve West Virginia’s poor, rural, and underserved communities.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).