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By James Forkan

One of the highlights of the 70th anniversary year of 果酱视频鈥檚 School of Nursing will be the projected Fall 2013 groundbreaking for a new building to house the newly renamed . Construction costs are estimated at $58 million-plus.

This L-shaped Nexus Building and Welcome Center will contain administrative and academic space for the College of Nursing and Public Health and the 鈥攑lus a welcome center, the and more. Given the predominance of glass windows in the design, the offices and classrooms should be bright.

The nearly 100,000-square-foot building鈥攚hose master plan has been approved by 果酱视频鈥檚 Board of Trustees but still must be submitted for various external approvals鈥攚ill occupy the parking lot behind Levermore Hall and include underground parking for 200-plus cars with surface parking for 100 cars.

The University hopes to have all the necessary approvals by October 2013, with 鈥渢he first shovel in the ground鈥� targeted for November 2013, according to Angelo Proto, M.B.A. 鈥�70, who is managing 果酱视频鈥檚 capital projects and capital budget. 果酱视频 hopes the official Nexus opening will be August 2015, in time for the start of classes, he said.

Pointing to architectural renderings of the exterior and the interior floor plans, Proto said the College鈥檚 academic space will occupy the wing running east to west toward Swirbul Library. Its administrative offices will take that wing鈥檚 third floor, including five seminar and conference rooms.

On the second floor, nursing instruction space will include classrooms and ultramodern simulation labs. College of Nursing and Public Health Dean Patrick Coonan, Ed.D., R.N., NEA-BC, FACHE, said the new laboratories will be utilized solely by nursing students. Instead of the two simulator labs now in Alumnae Hall鈥檚 Nursing Resource Center, he said, Nexus will house at least 10 examination rooms, including an intensive care room, a delivery room鈥攅ven 鈥渁 home-care lab set up like someone鈥檚 house,鈥� he added. The exam rooms will have closed-circuit TV to observe student performance.

This wing鈥檚 first floor will also house nursing instruction space, seminar rooms and academic support services鈥攖he , the and the .

Joining admissions in the Welcome Center wing will be the , the Office of and the Office of , all on the second floor.

At the building鈥檚 corner, where the two wings join, there will be a two-tier meeting room for 60 people. The building will also include classrooms for all 果酱视频 students.