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Saint Vincent College Begins Construction of $40 Million Science Pavilion

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 10:00 CDT

LATROBE, Pa., April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Saint Vincent College officials broke ground today on construction of the Sis and Herman Dupre Science Pavilion, a 102,000 square foot educational facility that will provide new or renovated classrooms, laboratories and offices for the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing. The new facility is part of an approximately $40 million initiative that also includes funding for new endowment and instrumentation. Over $27 million has been raised in this effort, and the first phase of construction and renovation, expected to be completed by August 2010, is fully-funded.

"We are proud that Saint Vincent College is able to begin construction on this state-of-the-art complex. It is the largest and most ambitious project in the College's history," President Jim Towey said. "Thanks to the generosity of our donors we can go forward at a time when other colleges and universities are pulling back. These new facilities will help us continue to attract the best and brightest students from the region and maintain the high standards and tradition of the Boyer School."

Special features include an 80-seat lecture hall with a 3-D digital projector, a planetarium and a digital imaging laboratory.

The Sis and Herman Dupre Science Pavilion is named in recognition of a $7.6 million gift from the family and friends of Sis and Herman. Mr. Dupre is a graduate of the Class of 1953 and is renowned for his patents in artificial snow-making and legendary ownership of Seven Springs Mountain Resort. The Richard King Mellon Foundation made a $7 million grant for this project, which was the largest foundation grant in College history. Other major donors to the science center project include the Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation, Edward B. Dunlap Family, the CentiMark Foundation and the Benedictine Society.

SOURCE St. Vincent College

Source: PR Newswire

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