Bill Gates Will Speak Sept. 22 at Carnegie Mellon
Byron Spice
Department of Media Relations
Carnegie Mellon University
Alumni House
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
268-9068412-268-2900
Fax: 412-268-6929
Contact: Byron Spice For immediate release:
412-268-9068 September 15, 2009
Media Advisory:
Bill Gates Will Speak at Dedication
Ceremony
For Carnegie Mellon’s Gates and Hillman Centers
Who: Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and chairman of Microsoft Corp., will present a keynote address and assist with ribbon-cutting ceremonies.
What: Two new buildings — the Gates Center for Computer Science and the Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies — will be dedicated. The office, research and classroom buildings, with a total of 217,000 square feet, were occupied last month by the School of Computer Science. The buildings were designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and the landscaping was designed by Michael Van Valkenburg Associates. PJ Dick Inc. is the general contractor. A $20 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a $10 million gift from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation were instrumental in making the new buildings a reality.
When: 3 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 22 (media covering the event should arrive no later than 2:45 p.m.)
Where: Wiegand Gymnasium in the University Center. Parking is available in the East Campus Garage adjacent to the University Center.
Media who plan to cover this event should register no later than Sept. 17 with Byron Spice, 412-268-9068, bsp...@cs.cmu.edu, or Ken Walters, 412-268-1151, walt...@andrew.cmu.edu. Attendance at the ceremony is by invitation only. Bill Gates will not be giving interviews. Photographers will be restricted to the rear of the gymnasium except for the first five minutes of the ceremony and at the time of the ribbon cutting.
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About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the fine arts. More than 11,000 students in the university’s seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon’s main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California’s Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion fundraising campaign, titled “Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University,” which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.