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COLORADO SPRINGS -- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Colorado College a $4 million grant to help build the Russell T. Tutt Science Center, part of the Campaign for Colorado College: A Course of Distinction. The new science building will house several departments and programs in the natural sciences, including environmental science.
Designed by internationally known architects Moore, Ruble, Yudell of Santa Monica, Calif., the center completes a suite of science buildings begun in the 1980s on the campus. Tutt Science Center will feature 11 classrooms and classroom/lab complexes, an environmental science research center, and a lecture hall seating 75. Its design incorporates many "green" features that will make the building environmentally friendly. Groundbreaking is slated for 2001.
The grant -- $1.5 million for a professorship in environmental science and $2.5 for the building -- brings the campaign total to $78.8 million toward a goal of $83 million. The Packard Foundation now has given at total of $12 million during the campaign, which was launched in 1998 as the largest in the college’s 126-year history.
“Colorado College is very grateful for the Packard Foundation’s long-standing support," said William Ward, chair of the college’s Board of Trustees. “This major gift comes at a critical time both for the overall campaign and for fundraising efforts for the Tutt Science Center. David Packard and his family’s legacy will continue to touch many generations of Colorado College students.”
The environmental science program, initiated in 1995, is the fastest growing interdisciplinary program at Colorado College. The programs goals are to increase its learning community with an integrated set of courses and to focus on our sense of place in the Southwest. The Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard (1912-1996) and Lucile Salter Packard (1914-1987). David Packard, a former trustee and the college’s largest individual benefactor, was co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. He gave a total of nearly $20 million to Colorado College in his lifetime, and the Sperry S. and Ella Graber Packard Hall for Music and Art is named in honor of his parents, 1902 CC alumni.
The grant brings the total contributed toward the Tutt Science Center to $12 million, building on a lead grant of $5 million from El Pomar Foundation, a $1 million challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation, and grants from other foundations and individuals.
More about the campaign is available at http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Campaign/.
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