CAMPUS SCENE

The Sorenson

Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence

is a new 100,000 square-foot facility integrating research, student training, and comprehensive clinical services to clients across the region. The Sorenson Center is the first of its kind in the Intermountain West and will benefit low-

income, underserved minority populations, and families in Utah and beyond. The center houses an advanced nursing simulation lab, hydrotherapy pool, speech-language clinic, memory clinic, early childhood education classrooms, movement research clinic, hearing and balance clinic, behavioral health services, and a teaching kitchen. “Our work has taught us the value of an interdisciplinary approach to outstanding care, training, and research,” says Beth Foley, dean of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. “It is with this in mind that

we created the Sorenson Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence—a single, comprehensive facility that offers interdisciplinary care, teaching, and research across the entire lifespan.”

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Dean Beth Foley (center) and dignitaries celebrate the Sorenson center’s ribbon cutting May 3.

One July Morning,

blue tape marks the walls where art will be hung,

staff balance on ladders adjusting lights, and Katie Lee-Koven takes in all the activity as the museum comes back to life.

A gift from artist and philanthropist Nora Eccles Harrison helped fund construction of Utah State University’s art museum in 1982. The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum

of Art (NEHMA) collection focuses on art west of the Mississippi River since 1920, and features 5,000 works of art by 1,845 artists. NEHMA opens its doors again Sept. 15 after a $5 million dollar restoration and expansion project with Collecting on the Edge, a two-part exhibit celebrating its permanent collection. It showcases works by 172 artists and a range of movements such as Bay Area abstract expressionism, Santa Fe transcendentalism, abstract classicism, pop, and conceptual art. “This exhibition ... asks viewers to consider what art

tells us about our past and how history should be reexamined, in this instance with respect to art in the West,” says Lee-Koven, NEHMA executive director and chief curator. “This grouping of 172 objects demonstrates that the history of art in the American West has been even more of a force in American art and culture than

one might think.”

Museum Grand Reopening Celebration September 15, 7—9 p.m.

Collecting on the Edge Exhibition

Part One: September 15—December 15, 2018

Part Two: January 17—May 4, 2019

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