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Celebrating 275 years of being a LITTLE REVOLUTIONARY.
HEALTH SCIENCES includes features such as
LED lighting throughout
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Real-life scenarios are and is expected to qualify
replicated and recorded so for LEED (Leadership in
students and faculty can Energy and Environmen-
critique student work. tal Design) certification.
¦ A health informat- ¦ To take a virtual
ics computer lab. tour of the building’s de-
sign, go to YouTube and
¦ Laboratories for search Sally Breidegam
general chemistry, micro- Miksiewicz Center for
biology and anatomy and Health Sciences.
physiology.
¦ Soft, open study The programs
spaces throughout the
building invite students Filling the classrooms,
and faculty to spend time laboratories and creative
in the center, encouraging spaces will be under-
interaction and collabo- graduate and graduate
ration. Currently, nursing students enrolled in the The Sally Breidegam Miksiewicz Center for Health Sciences will have the only virtual cadaver lab in the region.
students (400-plus) and ever-expanding array of
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2017 faculty are scattered health sciences programs censure Bachelor of Sci- for RNs who do not have classes and then take celebrated the grand
across campus. offered at Moravian ence in Nursing (BSN) BSNs) specialized courses, de- opening of its Sports
College. Here are those ¦ Five Master of Sci- pending on the track they Medicine and Rehabilita-
¦ Emphasizing programs at a glance: ¦ The accelerated post- ence in Nursing (MSN) choose. All tracks feed tion Sciences Center and
sustainability and reduc- baccalaureate BSN programs: into the graduate pro- that summer the Depart-
tion of greenhouse gas Nursing ¦ The RN to BSN (de- grams, and it is easy to ment of Rehabilitation
emissions, the building ¦ The traditional preli- • Nurse Administrator move from any of these Sciences accepted its
gree completion program • Nurse Educator undergraduate tracks first graduate students in
• Clinical Nurse Leader into any of the graduate athletic training. De-
• Adult-Gerontology
Acute Care Nurse Prac- programs. The first class partment Chair Scifers
titioner in health sciences was ac- currently is deep in
• Adult-Gerontology cepted in fall 2015. development of graduate
Primary Care Nurse programs in occupational
Practitioner The Moravian col- therapy (OT), physical
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION OF THE MORNING CALL ¦ Public Health (BS, BA, lege program in health therapy (AT) and speech
and a minor) sciences offers students pathology. He and Amy
a unique experience. Gerney, program director
Health Informatics Because of the on- of occupational therapy,
Health informatics campus relationship the aim to begin admitting
uses information technol- college enjoys with St. graduate students in OT
ogy to organize and man- Luke’s University Health beginning in fall 2018.
age big data. The pro- Network, clinicians from (To learn more about
gram is in development St. Luke’s serve as role Moravian College’s
103 at Moravian College with models and mentors to rehabilitation sciences
a minor in the pipeline undergraduate students department and how it
and a major projected to in the health sciences will set the gold standard
launch in fall of 2018. major who are looking for these programs, turn
to matriculate to profes- to page 8.)
Health Sciences sional graduate programs
The health sciences in the rehabilitation As the future of health
MOTORS PUMPS GENERATORS HOISTS CRANES major is designed for stu- sciences, says James care continues to change
dents who wish to pursue “Jay” Scifers, chair of the in the United States and
INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL a career in athletic train- department of rehabilita- around the world, one
ing and exercise science, tion sciences. fact remains the same:
physical therapy, occupa- Moravian College will de-
tional therapy or speech Graduate Programs velop innovative, revolu-
pathology. Students first In spring of 2016, tionary programs to meet
6 complete a set of core Moravian College the needs. Stay tuned.
