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8/8/05
GEORGE I. ALDEN TRUST AWARDS SLU $150,000 FOR SCIENCE BUILDING
CANTON – The George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, Massachusetts, has awarded
a grant of $150,000 to St. Lawrence University, to be used toward construction
of its new 115,000-square-foot Sarah
Johnson Redlich '82 Hall of Science. The building, scheduled to be completed
for use in the fall of 2007, is the largest construction project in the history
of St. Lawrence.
The University broke ground in May for
the $36.9 million facility for biology, chemistry, biochemistry and neuroscience,
which is the first phase in a four-phase, $60 million program of science
and mathematics facilities improvements.
St. Lawrence President Daniel F. Sullivan stated, "We are very grateful for
the assistance of the George I. Alden Trust as we embark on this largest and
most expensive building project to date. It is the result of two years of intensive
planning, and will address significant new programming needs, focusing especially
on hands-on learning, and on opportunities for collaborative research by students
and faculty in the sciences. Support from this grant will assist us in constructing
this critically important facility."
The George I. Alden Trust has supported University initiatives with three
previous awards establishing and enhancing scholarship endowment.
George I. Alden established the George I. Alden Trust in 1912, for the general
purpose of "the maintenance of some charitable or philanthropic enterprises" with particular expressed
interest in "the promotion of education in schools, colleges, or other educational
institutions," as well as a particular interest in several named Worcester
educational organizations. Its trustees have given priority to higher education,
predominately in support of independent undergraduate education, in smaller
institutions with fulltime traditional undergraduate enrollments of 1,000 to
3,000 students. Currently the Trust focuses this support on institutions in
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and the six New England states.
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