2019 NSU Fact book

2019 FACT BOOK 11 • a gallery for the display of private art collections, photography, and student artwork There is also an outdoor aquatic center with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and integrated dive well, as well as a dryland training facility. In addition, eight residence halls on the Fort Lauderdale/ Davie Campus serve undergraduate, graduate, health professions, and law students, with a capacity for housing nearly 2,200 students in approximately 300,000 square feet of living space. The residence halls offer a variety of living options ranging from traditional hall shared rooms to suites and apartments. University Park Plaza, just to the south of the Health Professions Division (HPD) complex, has 173,000 square feet of space and will be the location of a new hospital built by HCA East Florida, which will replace Plantation General Hospital. NSU’s Health Professions Division complex is located at the northwest corner of the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The complex includes eight buildings totaling more than 540,000 square feet of space for admini- strative offices, classrooms, laboratories, the Health Professions Division Library, and a patient-services clinic. Also, there is a 600,000-square-foot parking structure with space for approximately 2,000 vehicles. In addition to the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus, the university has permanent facilities in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and North Miami Beach. These locations are all within 20 miles of the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. EAST CAMPUS The East Campus is located in Fort Lauderdale, six miles from the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus. The East Campus is located on 10 acres and has 8 buildings that provide 104,000 square feet of office and class- room space. Facilities house the university’s financial operations; the regional campuses administration; human resources; the university call center; and Alumni Hall, a multipurpose auditorium. NORTH MIAMI BEACH CAMPUS The 18-acre North Miami Beach Campus is home to dental medicine, family medicine, and optometry clinics operated by the Health Professions Division. Overall, the facility includes three buildings totaling approximately 230,000 square feet. OCEANOGRAPHIC CAMPUS The Oceanographic Campus, which serves the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, occu- pies 10 acres within the Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park at Port Everglades in Hollywood. The facilities are composed of three original buildings and a modular encompassing 27,000 square feet. It also boasts the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Center Building—a state-of-the-art, 86,000-square-foot research facility, as well as the Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Ecosystems Research. Space exists for offices, classrooms, a library, and research laboratories. The campus’ marina and proximity to the ocean is ideal for field studies. Partially funded by a $15-million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Center of Excellence is the only facility in the country dedicated to the study, research, and preservation of coral reefs. It was completed in September 2012. NSU ART MUSEUM FORT LAUDERDALE The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale was founded in 1958, and has been housed since 1986 in a distin- guished modernist building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. The museum building encompasses 94,500 square feet on three levels, of which 35,000 square feet is exhibition space used for the display of art. The adjacent Horvitz auditorium, which contains 256 seats, is used for a variety of presentations and performances, including lectures, films, concerts, and theatrical events. NSU also maintains space in the Museum Tower. The Museum Tower is the home of the Office of Advancement and Community Relations as well as a satellite office for the President.