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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
We use so much ink (or digital electrons) flogging politicians for not thinking beyond the next election that weâre a bit flummoxed when one actually does.
So what should we do with a long-shot candidate who proposes an idea so futuristic that the first two temptations are to either laugh or ignore it? Weâll go with a third option and actually take a look at what Peter Doran is proposing.
Editorial writers should reward out-of-the-box thinking even if voters donât.
Doran is one of seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination for governor in next monthsâ convention. Heâs not one of the top-tier candidates â that would be, in alphabetical order, Amanda Chase, Kirk Cox, Pete Snyder and Glenn Youngkin. But theyâre not the ones proposing a hyperloop in Southwest Virginia, and Doran is, so there.