IU School of Medicine has consistently and strategically upgraded facilities across its network of nine campuses.
Matthew Harris May 27, 2025
THE MEDICAL EDUCATION and Research Building in Indianapolis is the most recent upgrade of IU School of Medicine facilities around the state. Since 2007, the school has opened five new buildings, renovated its Fort Wayne campus, and explored upgrades at a shared space in Muncie.
Raclin-Carmichael Hall
Opened: 2007
Cost: $14.8 million
In 1968, South Bend served as a trial run for the School of Medicine’s regional campus model. Nearly four decades later, IU opened the 78,000-square-foot facility adjacent to Notre Dame’s campus. Its design draws on the Gothic architecture of its neighbor. It houses lab space for cancer and infectious disease research. It features a 250-seat auditorium and serves as a home for roughly 100 future physicians.
Lyles Porter Hall
Opened: 2014
Cost: $38 million
Anchoring Purdue University’s Life and Health Sciences Park, the School of Medicine shares a space that currently serves 68 medical students. Inside the 112,000-square-foot facility, future physicians use small-group study rooms, a computer lab, and furnished lounges. A library offers supplemental textbooks and board review materials. Crucially, an in-house simulation suite allows students to practice physical examinations and, in some cases, replicate team-based care with health professions programs run by Purdue.
Stone Family Center for Health Sciences
Opened: 2018
Cost: $70 million
IU School of Medicine shares the facility in downtown Evansville with health professions programs from the University of Evansville and the University of Southern Indiana. At 150,000 square feet, it houses a simulation facility, anatomy labs, wet and dry labs, classrooms and comfortable lounge spaces. The first floor includes a bright atrium and a 150-seat auditorium. A 30,000-square-foot simulation center, the largest outside of Fairbanks Hall in Indianapolis, is featured on the second floor. The third floor includes classrooms, labs and administrative suites. Ideally, the facility will serve as a pipeline that funnels future primary care physicians into the Southwest Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Regional Academic Health Center
Opened: 2021
Cost: $45 million
Adjacent to a new IU Health Hospital and along the eastern edge of IU’s flagship campus, the 115,000-square-foot facility is home to 100 medical students, along with nursing, social work and speech programs. Flexible classrooms can be reconfigured as needed, and the building features kitchens, dining spaces and communal areas to help students feel comfortable during long hours of study. A new anatomy lab is brighter and has designated locker rooms. Proximity to the hospital makes it easier for older students to carry out clerkships and for first- and second-year students to remain connected. A new residency program focused on primary care goes live in 2026, allowing the Bloomington campus to seed the surrounding area with new healers.
