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Features: March 4, 2002
GE Fund Supports Several Rensselaer Initiatives
Victor Abate '86, general manager of steam
turbine technology at GE Power Systems and a Rensselaer
Key Executive, was on campus Feb. 25 to distribute $260,000
in grant monies from the GE
Fund.
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(l-r) GE's
Michael Boss and Vic Abate '86 met with Tom Apple and
Bud Peterson at the Russell Sage Dining Hall.
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A "Learning Excellence" grant
of $150,000 to the Lois J. and Harlan E. Anderson Center
for Innovation in Undergraduate Education will support curriculum
reform through faculty involvement in educational computing,
the development of new techniques and facilities for interactive
learning, and in assessment of learning outcomes.
Additionally, $75,000 from the GE Fund's
Faculty for the Future Program will support three female
Ph.D. candidates. Faculty for the Future encourages women
and minorities to pursue faculty positions in the Schools
of business, engineering, and science. The GE Fund has provided
more than $1 million in support to Rensselaer for more than
10 years.
The Lighting Research
Center will receive $35,000 to bolster its efforts to recruit
and retain minority students in its master's degree program.
It is the final installment on a three-year, $105,000 award.
"Rensselaer is a real educational leader on so many
fronts," said Abate. "We're pleased to partner
with the university on these important initiatives to increase
educational opportunity and advance the quality of education."
The GE Fund, the philanthropic foundation
of the General Electric Company, invests in improving educational
quality and access and in strengthening community organizations
in GE communities around the world. All told, GE, the GE
Fund, and GE employees and retirees contributed more than
$100 million to community and educational institutions last
year.
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