$10 Million Gift from ALSAM Foundation to support
construction of new pharmacy building at Fitzsimons
Louis Diamond, PhD, dean of the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy, recently announced that the school will
receive a $10 million gift from The ALSAM Foundation, a Utah Trust, to assist
with
the construction of a new, 105,000 sq. ft. building to be located on the Fitzsimons
campus of the UCD.
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| Louis Diamond, PhD |
The School of Pharmacy is one of the top-ranked pharmacy schools in the
nation and is committed to excellence in pharmaceutical education, research
and patient care. The school consistently ranks at or near the top of the
nearly 100 schools of pharmacy in the United States in terms of National
Institutes of Health research grants per faculty member and has been widely
acclaimed as having one of the country’s most diverse pharmacy student
bodies.
The ALSAM Foundation gift is the largest ever to the School of Pharmacy and
one of the most substantial ever to the University of Colorado Denver. To honor and
memorialize the Skaggs family, the school will be renamed the “Skaggs
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.”
Mr. L.S. Skaggs and his family are nationally recognized as pioneers in the
retail drug and grocery business and as generous philanthropists. In appreciation
of their earlier financial support, the current pharmacy building at Eighth
Ave. and Colorado Blvd. in Denver is named for the Skaggs family. The University
of Colorado awarded Mr. L.S. Skaggs a Doctor of Science Degree, Honoris
Causa, in 1992.
