A hydraulics laboratory and a student hostel, two of four new buildings to be opened at the Israel Institute of Technology here this week, were inaugurated today at a ceremony at Technion City, the new campus of the Technion.
Put into use today were the David T. Siegel Laboratory and the Philadelphia Student Hostel. The new Winston Churchill Auditorium and the Albert Einstein Institute of Physics will be opened later in the week.
At a meeting of the Technion’s board of governors, Institute president Brig. Yaacov Dori reported that the student body had increased to 3, 750, including 50 students enrolled in the new nuclear engineering program. He recommended a construction budget for the academic year of 1959 totaling 3,500,000 Israeli pounds.
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