University of Virginia Health System

The UVa School of Nursing broke ground April 8 on the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building. The new building will provide large, flexibly designed classrooms equipped with cutting-edge instructional technologies; a Student Life Center; computer kiosks placed strategically throughout the building; conference rooms; and offices for administrators, faculty, staff, and graduate students. The new facility will be completely adapted to the latest innovations in wireless telecommunications, and an open staircase will connect all floors, reinforcing the values of health promotion central to the nursing profession.

"It used to be the infrastructure of a classroom building was bricks and mortar," UVa President John T. Casteen III said. "Now the backbone of the building is electronic."

This historic day was made possible with the help of many dedicated benefactors. In January, the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation awarded the school a $5 million challenge grant toward its new four-story, 32,000-square-foot building. The Commonwealth of Virginia has endorsed the plan by appropriating $6 million to the construction project, and the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation made a $1 million gift to the building.

The Claude Moore Nursing Education Building will help the School of Nursing to expand its enrollment by up to 25 percent, a significant boost to address the nation's critical nursing shortage.  

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The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation of Fairfax, Va., has awarded the School of Nursing a challenge grant of $5 million for a planned school expansion that will include a new nursing education building. The grant represents the largest single gift ever received by the School of Nursing. To read more, click here.

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October 2005
How One Foundation Helped Transform a School 

The Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Foundation has donated more than
$6 million to UVa, with more than $4 million of that total going to the School of Nursing. It was to the nursing school that the foundation made its first gift, making the lead gift in the school's first-ever capital campaign. Now, as the foundation closes its doors, it has made its final gift to the nursing school -- $1 million to help make the critical expansion of McLeod Hall a reality. To read about the partnership of the Thomas Foundation and the School of Nursing, click here.