Environmental testing revealed no link between four MSU Denver faculty members’ cancer diagnoses and working conditions within the West Classroom building, the university said today in a news release. MSU Denver and AHEC will hold a town hall meeting at 3 p.m. today in the King Center Concert Hall to update the campus community on the two-week investigation.

According to the news release, “The investigation did not reveal a connection between the cancers identified in MSU Denver employees and the West Classroom building. Based on visual observation, direct-reading meter monitoring and analytical results, the environmental parameters were within the typical ranges for occupied office buildings and well below the applicable regulatory limits.”

MSU Denver notified faculty and staff July 24 that three faculty members working in the same West Classroom office suite had contracted breast or liver cancer. A fourth person from the same office died of cancer in 2016. Subsequently, several former employees notified the university about their own cancers.

The university launched the environmental investigation, acting “out of an abundance of caution.”

“There is no preliminary evidence that West Classroom is unsafe,” said Larry Sampler, MSU Denver’s vice president of administration and finance and chief operating officer, in the first town hall addressing the issue July 25. “There is nothing to be nervous about in West Classroom.”

Faculty and staff were scheduled to return to their offices around campus today. Fall semester classes start Aug. 19.

“We are responsible for making sure when students, faculty and staff show up for work or to learn, the classroom environment is ready to welcome them and the campus is here to support that academic mission,” Blaine Nickeson, the chief of safety and communications for AHEC, said in an interview Aug. 8.