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Article: DONORS GIVE $7 MILLION TO ENDOW CHAIRS, PROFESSORSHIP
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 5, 2007
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Michigan Technological University issued the following press release:
Two families have donated major gifts to Michigan Technological University that will fund three endowed faculty chairs and an endowed professorship, as well as several other projects.
Richard and Bonnie Robbins, of Seattle, have created the Robbins Chairs of Sustainability, including a Chair in Sustainable Manufacturing and Design, a Chair in Sustainable Use of Materials, and a Chair in Sustainable Management of the Environment.
A total of $6 million, the primary endowment for the chairs, has been committed through a charitable trust that will ultimately come to Michigan Tech. In the interim, the Robbinses have directed ...