The new $124 million UND Medical School is now under construction. Right now it's only recognizable from the steel beams sticking out of the ground on the corner of Columbia Road and Gateway drive.

Those driving by that busy intersection and wondering what is being built, it is the new UND Medicine and Health Sciences building.

The new building is a couple blocks away from the Ralph Engelstad areana. Which will make it the second largest building on the north end of the campus. The 320,000 square-foot, four-story building is not as large as the Ralph, but it will still have a big presence in the area. Dean of the Medical School Joshua Wynne says the new facility will give more students wanting to study medicine that opportunity.

Dean of the Medical School Joshua Wynne said, "The quality of the students of the students that we get is so high, that right now we actually have to turn away qualified students, and with our new building and class size expansion we can accept more of those students."

Construction is expected to last 2 years. With the new school building opening July of 2016.

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New $124 million UND Medical School now under construction