Orange City, Iowa — Northwestern College has broken ground for its new health and natural sciences center. The building will be on the southwest corner of the campus green, just west of the Ramaker Center. Ground was broken in a Friday ceremony.
The 61,000-square-foot facility will cost approximately $24.5 million and will house classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices for the departments of biology, chemistry and nursing. College officials say the eco-friendly facility will also include increased space for student and faculty research. They say that the building is scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2018, and they hope the building will create a grand west entrance to the campus on Highway 10.
College President Greg Christy says that this project will honor the outstanding scientific talent Northwestern has been blessed with—students, professors and alumni—with an investment that will “nurture and multiply that talent and unleash its redemptive power in God’s world.”
More than 300 of Northwestern’s 1,260 students are health or natural science majors pursuing degrees in biology, chemistry, nursing, biochemistry, ecological science, or genetics, molecular and cellular biology. Northwestern also offers pre-professional tracks in medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy and other allied health fields.
