{"id":59380,"date":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-launch-campaign-seeking-passage-of-bond-referendum-for-new-engineering-building\/"},"modified":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-launch-campaign-seeking-passage-of-bond-referendum-for-new-engineering-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/uri-to-launch-campaign-seeking-passage-of-bond-referendum-for-new-engineering-building\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to launch campaign seeking passage of bond referendum for new engineering building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t\u2018Engineering Rhode Island\u2019s future\u2019 seeks support for Question 4<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHO: Lincoln D. Chafee, governor of Rhode Island; Nicholas A. Mattiello, speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives; David M. Dooley, president of the 溏心vlog免费B站; Michael Brandmeier, president and chief executive officer of Toray Plastics (America) Inc; Cheryl Merchant, president and chief executive officer of Hope Global; John Hazen White, Jr., president of Taco, Inc.; Raymond M. Wright, dean of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering; other business and government leaders, 溏心vlog免费B站 alumni and students.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHAT: Official launch of campaign, \u201cEngineering Rhode Island\u2019s Future\u201d in support Question 4 on the ballot. Approval of the $125 million referendum for higher education facilities will fund construction of a new 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering building, which is vital to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s and the state\u2019s future, as the current 50-year-old facilities do not match the innovative research being conducted and demanded by contemporary engineering firms. It will also accommodate a projected 18 percent increase in student enrollment for a college that has seen the number of undergraduates grow by about 39 percent over the last decade. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDETAILS:  The 195,000-square-foot building will replace five existing engineering buildings on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus, all of which opened in the late 1950s and early 1960s. More than 4,000 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering alumni live in Rhode Island and work at about 750 companies in the state. The College of Engineering contributes about $142 million to the Rhode Island economy each year, based on a 2013 economic impact study. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe engineering project will create about 1,500 construction and professional service jobs over the three-year construction period.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHEN: Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWHERE: Toray Plastics (America) Inc., Quonset Business Park, 50 Belver Ave.,\u2028North Kingstown, R.I. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPLEASE CONTACT: Dave Lavallee, 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing &amp; Communications to make coverage and parking arrangements at 401-874-5862.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember 25, 2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Engineering Rhode Island\u2019s future\u2019 seeks support for Question 4 &#13; WHO: Lincoln D. Chafee, governor of Rhode Island; Nicholas A. Mattiello, speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives; David M. Dooley, president of the 溏心vlog免费B站; Michael Brandmeier, president and chief executive officer of Toray Plastics (America) Inc; Cheryl Merchant, president and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}