LOCAL : $6-Million Gift to Carnegie U.
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The vice chairman and chief executive officer of Los Angeles-based Teledyne Inc. has donated $6 million to Carnegie-Mellon University, his alma mater, it was announced today in Pittsburgh.
The donation from George Roberts, who is a CMU trustee, will go to construction of an electronic materials technology building. The facility will house research on electronic, magnetic and other advance materials, officials said.
Roberts is considered an internationally known expert in physical metallurgy. The new CMU building will be named after him and will house nearly 75,000 square feet of classrooms, laboratories and equipment.
Research in the building will focus on future technological needs, including the growth and processing of high-performance semiconductors, the tailoring of magnetic properties for very high energy product applications and investigation of the structure and properties of semiconductors.
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