The UF Medical Alumni Board of Directors introduce the Alumni Challenge to raise seed money to get the new building project off the ground.

David S. Guzick, MD, PhD, senior vice president for health affairs at UF and president of UF Health, launches the Forward Together strategic plan that emphasizes collaborative learning to ensure high-quality patient care.

Dr. H. James Free and his wife, Carole, make a transformative gift that fuels plans to build a new medical education building and request it be named after founding medical school dean Dr. George T. Harrell.

UF Trustee Dr. Steven M. Scott and his wife, Rebecca, make a $5 million contribution to help fund the new building.

The College of Medicine breaks ground for the Harrell Medical Education Building.

The construction crew lifts the framework’s final beam to its place in the new building in an official beam-signing ceremony.

Construction remains on schedule.

The College of Medicine unveils the Harrell Medical Education Building.