UVa Health System Building News
| September 2006 UVa Board of Visitors Names Three Buildings at the Health System |
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Acknowledging the transformational impact of a $45 million gift from the Ivy Foundation, the Board of Visitors in September approved the naming of two new clinical care facilities and one research building at the Health System. In keeping with the wishes of the foundation, the board named the cancer facility the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, paying tribute to the late Virginia senator and her efforts to acquire new resources for cancer care and research in the Commonwealth, including access to promising clinical trials. Before losing her personal battle with pancreatic cancer, Couric invited the University to envision a cancer center that met the individual needs of each patient and that treated the whole person, not just the disease. The board also named the Barry and Bill Battle Building at University of Virginia Children's Hospital to honor two longtime champions of children's health in the Charlottesville community. Barry Battle has been involved with UVa Children's Hospital for more than 20 years. She chaired the Children's Medical Center Committee when it was created in the 1980s, as well as the first Children's Hospital telethon. She recently joined the UVa Children's Hospital Campaign Steering Committee. Her husband, William C. Battle (A&S '41, Law '47), chaired the University's first comprehensive fund-raising campaign between 1981 and 1984. The Battles have been long-time supporters of pediatrics and research at the University. The Ivy Foundation Translational Research Building will house much-needed laboratory space for medical research at UVa. Work there will focus on efforts to accelerate the progress from lab-bench discoveries to direct improvements in patient care. |
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April 2006 |
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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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September 2005 |
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| UVa President John T. Casteen III joined Vice President and Dean Arthur Garson Jr., M.D., M.P.H., and distinguished friends, alumni, and faculty for the groundbreaking and naming ceremony of the Carter-Harrison Research Building. With 102,000 square feet of research space devoted to vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, and cancer, the new building was named to honor two families who have been instrumental in advancing medical research at the University.
"By enabling us to expand our programs in science and biomedicine, the Carter-Harrison Research Building will address one of the University's highest priorities," said President Casteen. "We can look forward with gratitude to the lifesaving therapies that will result directly from work in this building." The Beirne B. Carter Foundation made a generous gift to support immunology studies in the new building, in which a floor and a half will be devoted to the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, a nationally-recognized leader in immunology research. Through the Harrison Family Foundation, the children of the late Mary and David Harrison (Col. '39, Law '41) also made a generous gift toward the building's construction. |