Linfield STEM students will soon benefit from a state-of-the-art science center on the McMinnville Campus, thanks to a $10 million gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation.
The largest single gift in the university’s history, the Keck donation supports the renovation of existing facilities and the build-out of new spaces to create a new science hub. Construction is expected to begin in mid-2021. Once built, the facility will be named the W.M. Keck Science Center.
“This new center will have a transformational impact on Linfield,” said Lucinda Day Fournier ’95, W.M. Keck Foundation vice president and Linfield trustee, when the record-setting gift was announced.
“From the increased dedicated space for faculty-student collaborative research, to the enhanced interdisciplinary teaching and learning opportunities the project will provide, we know amazing work and learning will take place.”
This is not the foundation’s first significant gift to Linfield. In 1998, it helped the university purchase the neighboring Hewlett-Packard property and facilities. Today, these 17 acres are known as the Keck Campus.
