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Article: Lilly Endowment Grants Almost $26 Million To Purdue Discovery Park.
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- October 25, 2001
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Byline: Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 25 (AScribe News) -- Purdue University today announced that Lilly Endowment has awarded the university a grant of almost $26 million for its new Discovery Park, a complex for advanced interdisciplinary research and education.
Purdue will leverage the grant and state funding with existing university funds, private donations and federal research support to create the $100 million park. Initial plans for the 40-acre site on the west edge of campus call for centers to house research in nanotechnology, bioscience/engineering and e-enterprises. The park also will include an entrepreneurship center to help ...