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Brophy Hall Open House Oct. 13
September 27, 2006
MACOMB, IL – To celebrate … and show off … Western Illinois University Brophy Hall’s renovations and remodeling, an open house will be held from 4-6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 in Brophy Hall. Campus and community residents are invited to attend.
According to Kinesiology Department Chair Miriam Satern, the open house will highlight the kinesiology department, the dance program and programs in athletics and campus recreation that are offered in Brophy Hall. Students will lead tours of the facility, and visitors will have the opportunity to see demonstrations in the research and teaching areas.
“With the completion of our renovations, we are excited to show our new and improved facilities to the campus and the community,” Satern said.
As part of the kinesiology departmentÂ’s master plan, a comprehensive renovation of Brophy Hall began in May 2005. The weight room has been expanded, lockers were removed from an unused locker room area, an underwater weighing lab for measuring body composition and a biomechanics lab has been added, as was a new rehabilitation lab for the athletic training curriculum. In addition, classrooms and labs were retrofitted and redesignd to bring them up-to-date with current teaching and learning practices.
“The weight room on the lower level was expanded as a joint effort with athletics through former women’s athletics director Marion Blackinton’s generous donation,” Satern said. “Kinesiology has shared space with athletics for years, and our weight room is used by both academic classes and student-athletes. We needed to expand what we had in order to meet the needs of those using the facilities.”
Also on the lower level of Brophy Hall, the Westerwinds athletics team room was traded to kinesiology for space in another part of the women’s locker room to provide an athletic training rehabilitation room; and a biomechanics lab – which allows kinesiology students to look at movement activities more in-depth – was created to give students hands-on learning. An underwater weighing tank has been added to the new space and the Bod Pod was re-located to this area.
Brophy Hall houses undergraduate kinesiology programs in physical education teacher education, exercise science and fitness, and athletic training education, and graduate programs in kinesiology and sport management. Brophy also serves as home to Westerwinds locker room facilities and athletic training space and the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) dance program.
For more information, contact Satern at 309/298-1981.
Posted By: Darcie Shinberger (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
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