Paths to ExcellenceFor more than a century, medical schools and academic campuses were largely separate in Texas. Though new medical technologies and drugsconceivably, even a vaccine instrumental in the prevention of a pandemicmight be developed on an academic campus such as the University of Texas at Austin, there was no co located medical school with which to collaborate. Faculty members were left to seek experts on distant campuses. That all changed on May 3, 2012,