A medical school on Angela Boulevard: IU School of Medicine—South Bend

1968 — today

The regional campus that became a research address: Indiana University began offering medical classes in South Bend in 1968 — the trial run, in the university's own magazine's phrase, for the School of Medicine's regional campus model. For its first decades the campus taught in borrowed and shared space; its research seat arrived with the building that joined it physically to Notre Dame. Raclin-Carmichael Hall, at Notre Dame Avenue and Angela Boulevard, was completed in September 2005 and dedicated that October — 77,000 square feet in the design record, 78,000 in the university magazine's — housing the medical school's first- and second-year classes, laboratory space for cancer and infectious-disease research, and, under the same roof, Notre Dame's W. M. Keck Center for Transgene Research and research space shared by the two universities. The building's cost is printed as its sources give it: $17.5 million split between Notre Dame and Indiana University in the design record; $14.8 million in the university magazine's 2025 regional survey, which also dates the hall's opening to 2007 against the 2005 completion and dedication the contemporary record gives — both datings stand. The campus's director and assistant dean through the building's first era was Rudolph M. Navari, whose own research entry follows the Harper Institute's below; the institution the hall made possible is the joint research record the next entries tell: a state medical school seated across the street from a private university's laboratories, sharing buildings, faculty appointments and, from 2011, a cancer institute.

Sources:

1. IU Medicine (Spring 2025), "Regional Growth" — South Bend as the 1968 trial run of the regional campus model; Raclin-Carmichael Hall at 78,000 square feet with laboratory space for cancer and infectious disease research, its opening dated 2007 and its cost $14.8 million in that account, carried in the entry against the contemporary record.
2. Healthcare Design Magazine, Raclin-Carmichael Hall project account (2007) — construction completed September 2005; the medical school's classes and Notre Dame's W. M. Keck Center for Transgene Research under one roof; shared research space; project cost $17.5 million split between the universities; Navari as chief administrator of the medical campus.
3. Indiana University South Bend, campus history as carried in the university's references — the IU School of Medicine—South Bend dedicated in October 2005, across from the Notre Dame campus; medical classes in South Bend from 1968.