Samuel Brody of Detroit has made a gift of $100,000 to the Israel Institute of Technology at Haifa for the construction of a new building to house the engineering and agricultural departments of the school, it was announced today. The building will rise on the Technion’s new campus on Mt. Carmel in Haifa.
Prof. Walter C. Lowdermilk, internationally known American soil conservationist, will arrive in Israel next month to assume the chairmanship of the agriculture department at the Technion.
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