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Community Invited to Visit School of Nursing
and Student Community Center
The doors of the newly completed School of Nursing and Student Community Center will open to the public from noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 30.
Those who work and study in the 195,160-square-foot, eight-story building at 6901 Bertner Ave. and Holcombe Boulevard will proudly show off their new home while entertaining a come-and-go crowd attending the Community Open House.
Among those expected to see the building during the open house are students, faculty and staff from all schools and units of the UT Health Science Center, alumni of the UT School of Nursing at Houston, donors, friends from throughout the Texas Medical Center, and nursing administrators from hospitals in southeast Texas.
Tours of the building will show highlights of the award-winning design. Continuous live entertainment and refreshments will add to the festivity. Docents will point out interesting features that make the building environmentally responsible and a “green” or sustainable building. Points of interest include a Clinical Skills Lab, with its interactive patient manikins and 32 inpatient beds; a dedicated microscope lab; 12 individual examination rooms; and state-of-the-art classrooms.
A first-floor Student Government Suite provides the university’s first student government offices to serve all six UT Health Science Center schools. Also open for viewing the two days is the PARTNERS Student Lounge that overlooks Grant Fay Park and the Center for Nursing Research, with its environmental control lab and two “wet labs” for research and teaching.
Guests can park in one of two nearby Texas Medical Center garages. Those in the university and Texas Medical Center community are encouraged to take the health science center shuttle, use Metro and the new Metro light rail, or walk.
— By Nancy Hudgins, Public Affairs