William C. Levin Hall

             
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A main gathering place on the UTMB campus, Levin Hall features a large auditorium named for former U.S. congressman Clark W. Thompson, who served as representative from the 9th Congressional District during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. With two smaller side auditoriums that can be rotated to join the main auditorium, the facility can seat 1,000 and is the venue for a number of campus events, from scientific symposia to regular all-campus UTMB Town Meetings. Opened in 1981 as the Learning Center and named in 1987 in honor of former UTMB president Dr. William C. Levin, the building also houses the faculty dining room, administrative offices for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, classroom and technical services, photographic services, a copy center and a television studio.

In addition, Levin Hall is headquarters for the university’s award-winning telemedicine program, the world’s largest program with more than 12,000 consultations logged in 2001. Telemedicine combines computers and audiovisual technology to allow UTMB experts to see and treat patients in remote settings. It has been used by UTMB to treat such diverse
populations as cruise ship passengers, workers on offshore oil rigs, employees of a local corporation, seniors and chronically ill children in rural Texas, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmates.