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Montana Tech breaks ground on $10 million research center

May 1, 2015 /

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University officials, students and others broke ground on a $10 million Natural Resources Research Center at Montana Tech on Thursday, hailing it as a public-private partnership that will pay dividends for decades.

"This is indeed a great day on our campus," Tech Chancellor Don Blackketter told about 100 people in the middle of campus where the three-story, 32,000-square-foot center will be located. It’s projected to be completed by the fall of 2016.

The center is being funded through a $5 million appropriation from the Montana Legislature and a combined $5 million donation by three energy giants — Conoco Phillips, Halliburton and Anadarko. They are the largest gifts in Tech’s history, Blackketter said.

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