A gift of $1, 000, 000 toward the cost of constructing a biology building in the university’s proposed new science complex here, and overall plans for tripling the physical plant devoted to the sciences by the construction of seven units in an $8, 500, 000 building program, were announced here today by Brandeis University.
The $1, 000, 000 gift was contributed by Charles C. Bassine, of Great Neck, L. I., noted Jewish philanthropist, former associate chairman of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York and a founder of the Albert Einstein Hospital. The money will aid the construction of a building to house all of the research activities of the Brandeis biology department. It will be part of a quadrangle that will include buildings for research in biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics. The complex will be erected around a science library and auditorium.
At the same time, the university announced today that Dr. Jack S. Goldstein, associate professor of astrophysics, will head a new program for expanding the physical science program through the establishment of an Astrophysics Institute for research and training. Research in astrophysics is already being carried on here, supported in part by an Air Force grant of $80, 540. Dr. Goldstein was formerly a Fulbright scholar in Israel at the Weizmann Institute of Science there. Graduate programs in science at Brandeis are supported by more than $5, 000, 000 in governmental and private research grants.
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