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4/30/07
SLU AWARDED $135,000 GRANT FOR SCIENCE FACILITIES
CANTON - St. Lawrence University has been awarded a $135,000 grant by the J.M. McDonald
Foundation, for the Johnson Hall of Science.
The grant will also assist the University in securing $1 million from the Kresge Foundation,
which issued a challenge to St. Lawrence, to raise over $4.1 million in new gifts and
pledges for the project.
St. Lawrence's largest construction project ever, the $36.9 million Johnson Hall of
Science is scheduled to open in the fall of 2007. The 130,000-square-foot project
includes modern, spacious state-of-the-art facilities for teaching, collaborative
research, laboratories and offices.
University President Daniel F. Sullivan stated, "For the past three decades, the
J.M. McDonald Foundation has supported several St. Lawrence initiatives that,
taken together, illustrate the complexities of delivering a high quality liberal
arts education. This most recent grant will not only assist us in meeting our Kresge
Challenge, it will help us with the final stages of construction on the largest
building project in our history, bringing us that much closer to a new level
of science education - one that is distinguished by extensive hands-on investigative
research, interdisciplinary endeavors, and state-of-the-art technology."
The J.M. McDonald Foundation, based in Evergreen, Colorado, has awarded
St. Lawrence four previous grants: $20,000 in 1979 for the library building fund;
$50,000 in 1994 for equipment and furnishing of a computer classroom in Valentine
Hall; $50,000 in 1997 for the McDonald Technology for Teaching project; and
$50,000 in 2001 for the Advantage Saints Emerson Challenge, to help with funding
athletic facilities.
In the spring of 1952, J.M. McDonald established the J.M. McDonald Foundation, Inc.,
a trust whose income is to be used as donations to deserving charities. Primary
interests of the Foundation are education, humanities, health, and a variety of
social and human services.
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