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By Eric Althoff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing has been named as a foundational partner for the to-be-built Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Boeing, which has worked with Virginia Tech for decades, will be kicking in $50 million, which will go towards the school’s scholarships, recruitment of faculty and researchers, as well as funding pathway programs for underserved K-12 students who are looking to pursue a college education in the STEM fields. Boeing’s donation ties for the largest gift ever made to Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech’s main campus is located in Blacksburg, Va., but the new Tech Innovation Campus will give the university a prime hold on real estate close to the nation’s political center and government sectors, which employ thousands of scientists. Virginia Tech aims for the Innovation Campus to be the most diverse graduate technology campus in the country.
Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University’s “Innovation Campus”
On May 4, the aerospace manufacturer Boeing announced it will donate $50 million to Virginia Tech to help launch the university’s new Innovation Campus located in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. The donation is the largest in the university’s history, and will support scholarships and financial aid, faculty hiring, as well as programs aimed at preparing students for undergraduate course study in tech-focused and computer science programs.
The website for the Innovation Campus describes the gift as a “multiyear commitment” from Boeing to “jump-start Virginia Tech’s effort to create the most diverse graduate technology campus in the United States.” Located alongside Amazon’s HQ2, the Pentagon, and industry-related academic research centers such as George Mason University’s Institute for Digital Innovation, Virginia Tech’s generously funded Innovation Campus will b
$10M gift will help fuel discoveries at Innovation Campus
Published Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, 12:10 am
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Mehul and Hema Sanghani. Photo courtesy of the Sanghanis/Virginia Tech.
Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani and his wife, Hema Sanghani.
The couple’s $10 million gift primarily supports the newly renamed Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, which will be headquartered in the first academic building at the university’s Innovation Campus in Alexandria.
Innovation Campus program: Master of Engineering in computer science (part-time)
Grace Knudsen moved to Arlington two years ago to take a job with the federal government. This past spring, she decided to put her interest in cybersecurity to work. She wanted to explore the ways that cybersecurity relates with infrastructure and chemical facilities around the world, which is the kind of knowledge that would help her in her career.
When she searched for graduate programs, Virginia Tech’s Master of Engineering in computer science stood out because it is aimed at people like her who want to expand their education for direct use in a career field.
Virginia Tech’s growing impact in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area will receive a significant boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from Octo founder and CEO Mehul Sanghani ’98 and his wife, Hema Sanghani ’99.