EDUCATION: UCy gets €3 mln for medical school

Dr Artemis Hadjipanayis, a Cypriot physician who left the island in 1951 to study in Greece and later emigrated to the U.S. in 1958, has returned with a donation of EUR 3 mln to the University of Cyprus, that will be used for the new medical and biological sciences classrooms that will carry the donor’s name.

The university also decided to name one of the five new amphitheatres in the new building “Kythrea” where the US-based professor was born and raised.
Rector Constantinos Christofides said that “at the University of Cyprus we have a plan, which, thanks to our donors will help us realise the City of Learning project by the end of the decade. We are also building up the Diaspora University project where we will be able to attract notable Cypriots scientists who currently excel overseas.”