Private
Giving
Penn State Intercom......March
15 , 2001
Leading the WayThe Faculty and Staff Campaign 2001
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"I contribute to a couple of scholarship funds because of the high value I place on the importance of education. I'm particularly interested in doing something to help unconventional students and students who may find themselves a minority in an academic area. Such students need an extra measure ofbravery to pursue their academic goals, and I'm glad to be able to help in any way I can."Jean Landa Pytel Administrative Fellow in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. She joined the faculty in the College of Engineering in 1979. For more information
on faculty and staff giving, check the Web at http://www.development.psu.edu/WaysToGive/AnnualFund/ |
Hillel donates $250,000
to
Spiritual Center
Penn State Hillel has given $250,000 toward the construction of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, which will add much-needed space for worship and other spiritual and educational activities on the University Park campus.
Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life is offering opportunities for enrichment and leadership development through religious, social and educational activities to more than 3,700 Jewish students.
Construction of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center is slated to begin soon after the University's Board of Trustees approves the final design, which could happen as early as the trustees meeting March 16. The building, adjoining Eisenhower Chapel, will cost about $9 million, all of which will come from private funds. Hillel's gift brings the total raised thus far to just over $8 million.
Student participation in religious and spiritual activities has grown far beyond the ability of Eisenhower Chapel's ability to accommodate the needs of Penn State's 32 registered student religious organizations.
The spiritual center is named in honor of the late Frank and Sylvia Pasquerilla of Johnstown, who provided the leadership gift for its construction.
Apple provides equipment for new
digital research lab in Patterson Building
Apple Computer has donated 40 desktop and laptop computers, a camcorder, a digital camera and other related equipment to furnish a new digital research lab in Patterson Building, home of the School of Visual Arts at University Park.
The Apple Digital Imaging Studio, scheduled to open in the fall, will support the new collaborative minor in digital arts and information sciences and technology, to be offered by the College of Arts and Architecture and the School of Information Sciences and Technology beginning next fall.
The studio will provide much-needed lab space for the College of Arts and Architecture, which already has eight labs outfitted with Apple equipment. The value of the new equipment is about $164,000.
According to J. Gary Augustson, vice provost for information technology, the lab, which will be open to all students when not being used for a class, will be staffed by the Center for Academic Computing (CAC). The CAC also will provide peripheral equipment, such as printers, for the lab.
Construction of the new computing lab will begin this summer.