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John Hopkins Alum Donates $30M for Engineering School

BALTIMORE — John C. Malone, chairman of Liberty Media Corp. and a John Hopkins alumnus, donated $30 million to the university’s Whiting School of Engineering to construct a building that allows collaborative research for systems-based approaches to some of society’s biggest problems.
 
The largest amount ever donated to the school, the money will go toward the construction of a 56,000-square-foot research building on the university’s Homewood campus.

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Dining Hall Renovation Lands LEED Silver


ANDOVER, Mass. — Phillips Academy, a residential secondary school, earned LEED Silver certification for the renovation of its 80-year-old dining hall, Paresky Commons.

Renovated over the course of 15 months, the Academy reused and recycled more than 90 percent of all construction debris and installed several energy-saving devices.

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$8 Million S.D. Science Building

 
SPEARFISH, S.D. — Students will arrive back to school for the spring semester with a new $8 million Life Sciences Laboratory building open for research and instruction on the Black Hills State University campus.
 
The 26,000-square-foot, LEED-certified building is part of a $74.5 million state appropriations bill to upgrade laboratories at all state universities.

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Calif. Names New BOE Members

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown named seven new appointments to join the existing four members of the State Board of Education.
 
Trish Williams of San Jose heads EdSource, an independent non-profit K-14 research and communications organization that provides extensive data, policy analysis and research.

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A Platinum Harvest at UC Davis

DAVIS, CALIF. — UC Davis’ new winery, brewery and food-processing complex received LEED Platinum certification, establishing it as the first university facility of its kind to receive the award.

The grand opening of the new $20 million, 34,000-square-foot teaching-and-research complex located within the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science is scheduled for January 28.

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