Fort Lewis College recently received a donation of 1.4 million dollars, the largest single cash gift in its history, from the Robert and Roberta Barr Foundation. Sheri Rochford-Figgs, retired director of the FLC Foundation, talks about the generous donation to the Teacher Education department from Robert and Roberta Barr.
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Also, Fort Lewis College geosciences, physics and engineering departments will have a new $35-million building full of state-of-the-art laboratories, an observatory, smart classrooms, a science-themed library and gathering places for students to discuss research. Almost 43 percent of FLC’s nearly 4,000 students are majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics. The observatory has a grant from the Air Force to track space junk and will be made available to K-12 students throughout our community to study astronomy. Geosciences will have labs for stratigraphy, petrology, historical and structural geology, paleontology, mineralogy, sedimentology and seismology. Engineering and physics students will have a fluids lab and a strength & materials lab.
The new GPE Hall facility of 60,000 sq. ft. will be completed in 2016. Mr. Chuck Baltzer, 1982 Geology graduate of FLC who currently runs Environmental Support Services in Evergreen, CO, donated $90,000 to support this new building and geosciences research projects.
Read full article and watch video online: http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160216/NEWS01/160219660/Fort-Lewis-College–8217-s-new-hall-to-mix-high-tech-labs-and-beauty
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