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SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012
MONTANA TECH
Nursing’s new home State-of-the-art facility brings program onto main campus BY JOHN GRANT EMEIGH of The Montana Standard
KAREN VANDAVEER, left, director of Tech’s nursing program, stands next to a simulated hospital ward in the new Health Science building on the campus. PHOTO BY NICK GEVOCK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
Grand opening Thursday
It’s good to feel needed. The staff in the newly A grand opening of remodeled Health Montana Tech’s recently Sciences Building is renovated Health excited to be working in Sciences Building will be the heart of the campus at held from 4 to 7 p.m. Montana Tech. Assistant Thursday, March 29, in professor Miriam Young the old Petroleum said she’s glad to be in her Engineering Building. new office on the main People can tour the campus, a relocation from nursing department, meet the College of Technology the nursing faculty, staff in south Butte. and students, and watch “We feel like we’re part student demonstrations in of the campus now,” both the fundamental and Young said. “We felt like simulation labs. we were the stepchild Visitors may also before.” explore the programs The campus spent offered by the Institute for $2.8 million renovating the Educational Opportunities former Petroleum (formerly Technical Engineering building, Outreach), observe which is located at the demonstrations and meet center of the campus. The the institute staff, who remodeled facility now has provide the resources more than 16,000 square needed for students to feet of space for both the succeed in higher Nursing Department and education. the Institute for Educational Opportunity. institute, said the building Amy Verlanic, the executive director of the See PROGRAM, Page 9A
TOP PHOTO: THE Health Science building on the was formerly the Petroleum Engineering building. WALTER HINICK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
ONE OF THE NEW classrooms for the nursing program is pictured at right. The modern, state-of-theart facility prepares students to hit the ground running when they graduate and enter the working medical world. WALTER HINICK / THE MONTANA STANDARD
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