College celebrates nursing lab renovation

BY ALEKSANDRA SIDOROVA News & Managing Editor

SUNY Plattsburgh President Alexander Enyedi cut a red ribbon held up by Provost Anne Herzog and nursing student Trishelle Lewis Monday, Feb. 20. This gesture signified the end of the year-long renovation of the Damianos nursing simulation lab in Hawkins Hall.

Officially called the Dr. Xenophon and Virginia Sturrock Damianos Nursing Skills Laboratory, the lab honors ‘51 and ‘50 alumni respectively.

The renovation spanned the course of an entire aca- demic year and two summers, beginning in the summer of 2021 and ending in the summer of 2022. The lab is “almost exact” to the original construction plans, Assistant Professor of Nursing Heather Moussa said. For the entire calendar year that the lab was under construction, students used a “makeshift” lab in the Hawkins Hall basement, Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Shannon Hanshaw said. Students have been using the renovated lab in Hawkins 255 throughout the fall 2022 semester, but the department decided to postpone the official launch due to pandemic-