WILLIAMSBURG — Pre-med students at the College of William Mary might be able to stay with their alma mater for medical school. The college will consider merging with Eastern Virginia Medical School to create the WM School of Medicine, the schools announced in a joint statement Wednesday. Any action would require approval of the WM Board of Visitors, the governor and the General Assembly, President Taylor Reveley said in a letter to the campus community. A group led by the provost will explore the possible merger with the Norfolk-based medical school, which Reveley said is “worth careful consideration.” “EVMS is an institution we know and respect,” he said. “Many WM graduates have gone to medical school there. And there has been productive research collaboration between the two schools.” The provost-led group tasked with exploring the merger will include faculty and administrators, said WM spokesman Brian Whitson. Wednesday’s statement noted that the talks are exclusive, which Whitson said is standard practice in such situations. That drew disappointment from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, where President John Broderick sent a lette Read more text

Enlarge Joshua Lott/Getty Images A medical building on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. Joshua Lott/Getty Images A medical building on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. A “suspicious package” that the University of Colorado’s medical school in Aurora says was delivered to the school on Monday was “a notebook sent through the mail by suspected killer James Eagan Holmes before [last] Friday morning’s massacre,” The Denver Post reports. The Post says it confirmed that news with “a law enforcement official.” And it adds that “Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, NBC and CNN reported law enforcement sources [said] that the notebook contained drawings about a massacre and was sent to a CU psychiatrist.” “The FBI and other law enforcement agencies refused t Read more text

CAMDEN — The sleek steel tables for dissecting cadavers are in place. The hall lockers are lined up and waiting to be filled with books and lab coats. The last of the paint is being rolled on the walls outside the classrooms. All Cooper Medical School needs is students. Gov. Chris Christie and a bevy of politicians, higher education officials and community leaders will gather Tuesday in Camden to cut the ribbon on New Jersey’s first new medical school in nearly 35 years. The school, part of Rowan University, will be housed in a new $139 million state-of-the-art building diagonal from Cooper University Hospital in the city’s Lanning Square neighborhood. Its first class of 50 future doctors arrives next month. As workmen buzzed around the lobby completing the building last week, founding dean Paul Katz said the incoming students are poised to make history. “There is only one charter class ever in this school,” Katz said. “And you have a certain responsibility and obligation to create the traditions and legacies that everyone will build upon.” Cooper Medical School has been decades in the making. Since the 1970s, South Jersey leaders have been Read more text