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Friday, Pikeville College President Paul Patton announced a $4.5 million renovation project to turn a campus apartment building into an expansion of the School of Osteopathic Medicine which will include a gross anatomy laboratory and a lecture hall, along with offices and rooms in which to conduct "state of the art" training where hired actors will simulate symptoms and students will examine robotic patients. Medical School Dean, Dr. Boyd R. Buser, says the project would increase the size of the class from approximately 75 students to 125 students within the next few years. The fund raising campaign has received its first major gift of $500,000 from Louisville's James Graham Brown Foundation.