{"id":59393,"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/taco-pledges-400000-to-support-uris-college-of-engineering-and-yes-on-4\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"taco-pledges-400000-to-support-uris-college-of-engineering-and-yes-on-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/taco-pledges-400000-to-support-uris-college-of-engineering-and-yes-on-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco pledges $400,000 to support 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Engineering and Yes on 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNorth Kingstown \u2013 September 29, 2014 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation will announce today at the engineering bond campaign kick-off that the Taco White Family Foundation will donate $400,000 to the University to support the College of Engineering. Of the gift total, $300,000 will support proposed new engineering facilities on the Kingston campus, which hinges on the passage of the $125 million high education facilities bond referendum that will appear on the November 4 ballot. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe gift would establish the Taco\/White Family Research and Innovation Laboratory, which will enhance innovation through research practices and engagement opportunities with industry. The named learning space would be interactive and cross-disciplinary and would serve to help attract both students and faculty and to keep them at 溏心vlog免费B站. The space will be housed in the proposed 195,000-square-foot building, which is designed to replace five existing engineering buildings on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus — Crawford Hall, Gilbreth Hall, Kelly Hall, Kelly Hall Annex and Wales Hall \u2013 all of which opened in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe remaining $100,000 of the gift commitment will fund an endowed scholarship, the John Hazen White Scholarship, to support third and fourth-year undergraduate students studying any discipline of engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe are grateful to John for his support and to the Taco\/White Family Foundation for its pledge to this critical project,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 President David M. Dooley. \u201cThe University, its students, its faculty, and the state will benefit from this generous gift as we move forward to expand our engagement with local industry. The new, cutting-edge facilities this gift supports will enable the College to build on its already impressive track record of educating world-class engineers now and into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tJohn Hazen White, president and CEO of Taco Incorporated said, \u201cAs an employer and contributor to the economic vitality of this state, I am fully supportive of the bond issue that will be before the voters on November 4, and I urge them to vote Yes on 4. Taco and companies like it rely on both the well-trained, highly educated workforce coming out of 溏心vlog免费B站 and the research and innovation taking place in University labs. I am confident, as an employer of 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students, that the passage of Question 4 and the resulting construction of the new engineering facilities at 溏心vlog免费B站 will contribute significantly to the growth of our state.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt is critical, in this global economy, that we provide both students and faculty with the opportunity to be more innovative in their research practices and more interactive in their engagement with industry. The goal of this new laboratory is to ensure that 溏心vlog免费B站 is viewed as a real competitor when it comes to attracting the best and the brightest to learn and teach here. We, as a state, benefit from this level of excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTaco has a long-standing relationship with 溏心vlog免费B站, spanning more than 20 years and involving the Graduate School of Oceanography, and the Colleges of Business Administration, Arts and Sciences and Engineering on projects relating to internships, employment, faculty conducted sponsored research projects, and workforce training programs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Kingstown \u2013 September 29, 2014 — The 溏心vlog免费B站 and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Foundation will announce today at the engineering bond campaign kick-off that the Taco White Family Foundation will donate $400,000 to the University to support the College of Engineering. Of the gift total, $300,000 will support proposed new engineering facilities on […]<\/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-59393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393","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=59393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}