The Knorr Simulation Laboratory at California State University, Fresno, dramatically expanding nurse-training capability for the region, will be unveiled in a ceremony at 1 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in McLane Hall, Room 160, in the College of Health and Human Services.
The opening event will offer Department of Nursing tours (1-4 p.m.) and demonstrations of the latest skills and lab equipment, including the family of new state-of-the-art mannequins designed to simulate actual health events. There will be an all-class alumni meeting 3-4 p.m. in McLane Hall, Room 280.
The lab is made possible by a $174,356 grant from The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocated by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration and a gift of more than $250,000 from the estate of Alpheda Knorr, who died in 2008.
Mrs. Knorr did not attend Fresno State, but for many years she was a nurse, retiring in 1983 as nurse supervisor of the operating rooms at Fresno County’s Valley Medical Center.
Although she never attended Fresno State, Mrs. Knorr worked alongside the university’s nursing graduates, which inspired her support of future nurses. A plaque bearing her photo has been placed inside the lab in her honor.
Mrs. Knorr, whose nursing career began in the mid 1940s, retired in 1983 as nurse supervisor of operating rooms at Fresno County’s Valley Medical Center.
For more information, contact Dana Lucka at 559.278.5590 or danaz@csufresno.edu.
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