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Celebrating 275 years of being a LITTLE REVOLUTIONARY.
Building health sciences
This fall, Moravian therapy, physical therapy, and from its beginnings in
College will celebrate speech pathology, the facilities
the grand opening of for Moravian College’s robust 1742 into the 21st cen-
the Sally Breidegam health sciences programs are
Miksiewicz Center for busting at the seams. This fall, tury. Inside, world-class
Health Sciences — a they will all come together in
brand (and grand!) a new home on campus — the planning and technol-
new building that will Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz
house state-of-the-art Center for Health Sciences, ogy deliver a center
labs, classrooms and named in honor of alumna
study spaces. Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz that will advance, to
’84, who was a member of the
With eight nursing pro- board of trustees from 2008 the highest level, the col-
grams, disciplines in until she died in June of 2014
informatics and public at the age of 52. lege’s nursing programs,
health on the rise, and an
undergraduate health sciences The building undergraduate health
track that slips seamlessly
into graduate programs in Occupying 56,000 square sciences course of study
athletic training, occupational feet, the center blends histori-
cal elements into contempo- and the developing
rary architecture, symbolizing
the trajectory of the college graduate programs in
rehabilitation sciences.
Take a look at these
state-of-the-art features:
¦ The only vir- Rendering of Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Center for Health Sciences
tual cadaver lab in the screens around the classroom. computerized mannequins
region, featuring the that sweat, bleed, have a pulse,
Anatomage Table, which uses ¦ One 12-bed low-fidelity a heartbeat, and so forth.
3D software to display au- and two high-fidelity simula-
thentic, life-size human-anat- tion labs, which allow nursing SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION OF THE MORNING CALL
omy images on the table and students to practice skills with See Health sciences Page 6
y.
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