Calling it “a classroom with no walls,” UC Davis officials broke ground this week on a new $50 million nursing school building with state-of-the-art learning spaces. The 70,000-square-foot building, which will open in fall 2017, will become the primary home of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing on UC Davis’ Sacramento campus.
As California faces possible nursing shortages in the next decade, the new building will allow UC Davis to triple its nursing school enrollment to 450 by 2021 and emphasize its patient-centered, collaborative approach to teaching.
Among those attending the UC Davis ceremonies was Gordon Moore, retired co-founder of tech giant Intel, who flew in from his Hawaii home for the occasion. The new nursing school is named for his wife, Betty Irene Moore. Both in their 80s, the couple oversee a Palo Alto-based philanthropic foundation that gave $100 million to launch the UC Davis nursing school expansion.
Although they didn’t have professional or personal ties to the Davis campus, the Moores chose UC Davis because of “the openness of the leadership and faculty to creating a first-rate, science-based school, which they felt was important to the future of nursing education,” said Harvey Fineberg, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which funds a variety of science, environmental conservation and patient care projects.
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