First- and second-year medical students are logging some serious hours in the Indiana University School of Medicine’s new $230 million education and research building.

“I am in here at least five days a week,” said Emma Edwards, a first-year student from Columbus, Indiana. “I actually have been in here the past seven days.”

Officially opened in June, the building is the first classroom space the IU School of Medicine has built on its Indianapolis campus since 1959.

The 326,000-square-foot building, 350 W. 14th St., is just south of the IU Neurosciences Research Center on 16th Street and next to Indiana University Health’s 864-bed, $4.3 billion downtown hospital complex.

The new IU School of Medicine’s primary classroom and education facility and lab previously was on the IU Indianapoli

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