A gift of $514,000 has been presented to the Bristol Community College Foundation, to be used to equip the John Sbrega Health and Science building, now under construction on the Fall River campus.

The gift comes from Kathy and Brian MacLean of Connecticut.

The new building is scheduled to be open in early 2016. It will house BCC's Life Science programs, its Nursing program and Dental Hygiene facilities.

BCC has decided to name the Nursing Arts lab in the new building after Alice Harkin, a Fall River native and Kathy MacLean's mother.

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