Southwestern's new science center closer in Georgetown | Southwestern's new science center closer in Georgetown | https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/news/newstalk-texas/?Item=7046 | 2013-06-20T14:21:00Z | 2013-06-18T00:00:00Z |
GEORGETOWN - Southwestern University has received a $1.15 million grant from the Brown Foundation Inc. of Houston that will help pay for construction of the university’s new science center.
The grant unlocks another $1 million grant from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation of Tulsa, Okla., which offered their donation as a challenge grant if Southwestern was able to raise a matching amount.
The two grants, along with an earlier gift of $1 million from Brown, means the university has raised $8 million of the $24 million cost of the 23,700-sf addition to the Fondren-Jones Science Building. The first phase of construction can begin. The facility is expected to be ready for instruction for the 2015-2016 academic year.
The project’s second phase will remodel the original building.
Once completed, a new three-story entrance will be built on the northwest side of the building, and the building will have 103,000 sf of classrooms, offices, seminar rooms and laboratories.
The remaining $150,000 of the grant will go to the Jake and Jane Schrum Paideia Fund to support student scholarships and Southwestern’s Paideia program.
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