New Education Center Opening at the Darrin Fresh Water Institute

David Diehl

The lodge at the Darrin Fresh Water Institute has been transformed into a modern learning facility that will benefit the Rensselaer and Lake George communities, as well as the larger environmental community. Updates include a state-of-the-art computing center, year-round student/visitor residence rooms, and a refurbished public space suitable for the many environmental education programs at the Institute.

	David Diehl

The ground-to-roof renovations will allow the lodge to be all year; the new computing tools will provide the Institute with an improved ability to conduct the broad-based research and education crucial to protecting Lake George. “The new research conducted through the Darrin Fresh Water Institute will feature collaboration at its finest,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. “It will include roboticists, chemists, biologists, geologists, visualization, modeling, and simulation specialists, and social scientists. The synergy among such researchers surely will expand upon and enhance the breakthroughs achieved here.”

David Diehl

Improvements to the lodge were undertaken with financial support from the Darrin Fund for Excellence, the Margaret A. and David M. Darrin ’40 Endowed Funds, the Margaret A. Darrin Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the UPS Foundation, and the Chingos Foundation.