Carnegie Mellon Gets $150M Grant for Science and Robotics
The largest grant ever given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation will be split between a new science building at the university, a robotics center in an old steel mill and a new manufacturing-focused institute.
May 27, 2021 • Spurred by the largest single grant ever given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in a cutting-edge science building on its Pittsburgh campus and a robotics center in the city’s burgeoning Hazelwood Green district.
According to a news release last week, the foundation has approved a $150 million grant, of which half will go toward a $210 million science building on Forbes Avenue, $45 million will go toward a $100 million Robotics Innovation Center at Hazelwood Green and $30 million will create a sustainable endowment for the Manufacturing Futures Institute, which will support the de
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The Richard King Mellon Foundation on Thursday announced its largest ever grant $150 million to Carnegie Mellon University.
Half of the historic investment $75 million will go toward the construction of CMU’s long-awaited, cutting-edge $210 million science building on Forbes Avenue, adjacent to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The remainder will go toward development of a $100 million Robotics Innovation Center and an institute focused on advanced materials and manufacturing at Hazelwood Green, a reclaimed site once occupied by the massive steel mill.
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CMU, R.K. Mellon Foundation Announce Historic Partnership
Foundation approves record $150M grant to support cutting-edge science building on campus, and new robotics center and advanced manufacturing institute at Hazelwood Green
Carnegie Mellon University and the Richard King Mellon Foundation today announced that the two long-time partners will together make a transformational investment in science and technology leadership at the university; in a more vibrant future for the Hazelwood neighborhood; and in Pittsburgh’s ongoing economic renaissance.
The Foundation has approved a $150 million grant to CMU the largest single grant in the Foundation’s 74-year history. The first $75 million is the lead gift for a new cutting-edge science building on the CMU campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The second $75 million will seed a new robotics innovation center and an institute focused on advanced materials and manufacturing at Hazelwood Green a former rive
Carnegie Mellon, Richard King Mellon Foundation Announce Historic Partnership to Accelerate CMU s Science and Technology Leadership and the Transformation of Hazelwood Green
Foundation approves record $150M grant to support cutting-edge science building on campus, and new robotics center and advanced manufacturing institute at Hazelwood Green
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