OMAHA -- This is the house that Hal built.
Buthe's not done yet.
Chancellor Harold Maurer has transformed the University of Nebraska Medical Center into amodern teaching, research andclinical complex, its vibrant campusalive with gleaming new buildings and enhanced academic prowess.
And another transformation is rapidly approaching justover the horizon.
Maurer will leave his post as chancellorJune 30 after almost 15 years at the helm to join the University of Nebraska Foundation and spearhead fundraising for a $370 million cancer research and treatment center that will lift UNMC into new territory.
"It will raise the bar for the whole campus," Maurer said last week during an hourlong interview in his office on a cloudy afternoon that promised more rain than it delivered.
"This will transform the campus into a community of outstanding clinicians, scientists and educators," Maurer said.
"It will move us from an excellent to an outstanding Medical Center."
With state government alreadyhaving pledged$50 million to the project and assurances that the Med Center hospital can assume and rapidly liquidate $120 million in debt, the responsibility for raising the remaining $200 millionrests in Maurer's hands.
He is the visionary andbuilder.
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