College to build $25m health education center.The College of New Rochelle New Rochelle (rōshĕl`), city (1990 pop. 67,625), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on Long Island Sound; settled by Huguenots 1688, inc. as a village 1858, as a city 1899. will again break new ground in education by building a $25 million, 60,000 s/f holistic Holistic A practice of medicine that focuses on the whole patient, and addresses the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of a patient as well as their physical treatment. Mentioned in: Aromatherapy, Stress Reduction, Traditional Chinese Medicine Wellness Center. The Center will be unique in the greater New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. to bring together and integrate multiple disciplines to help students understand and practice the principles of healthy living and wellness throughout their lives. "Through the Wellness Center, the College will expand our commitment to education for health and well-being, and bring that knowledge into the community," said Dr. Stephen Stephen, 1097?–1154, king of England (1135–54). The son of Stephen, count of Blois and Chartres, and Adela, daughter of William I of England, he was brought up by his uncle, Henry I of England, who presented him with estates in England and France and J. Sweeny Swee´ny n. 1. (Far.) An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses. , President of The College of New Rochelle. "We're not just constructing a building. We are drawing on our strength as a women-centered, faith-based, liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. institution and matching it with the critical need to build a healthier society." Groundbreaking for the Wellness Center is anticipated in late summer/ early fall 2005, followed by an 18-month period of construction. Although several buildings have been renovated, the 60,000-square-foot state-of-the-art Wellness Center will be the first new building to be constructed on campus in 40 years. The Center will consist of several technologically equipped learning spaces for conferences, seminars and classroom instruction. Designed by Ikon.5 Architects the architecture of the Wellness Center is itself a metaphor--"a metaphor for wellness that reflects the philosophical underpinnings of the project," said Joe Tattoni, Design Principal. |
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