Northwestern University has received the largest corporate pledge in its history, a $1.25 million grant from the Amoco Foundation, according to Arnold R. Weber, university president. Weber said that under terms of the commitment, the foundation will contribute $250,000 to the university in each of the next five years for use in the following areas: $700,000 for laboratory renovation in the Technological Institute, $450,000 for unrestricted purposes, $50,000 for the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and $50,000 for the Transportation Center. The $700,000 for the Technological Institute will be used to fund renovations in the electrical, plumbing and ventilation systems in the building`s chemistry and chemical engineering laboratories and to provide fume hoods for nine chemical research laboratories, Weber said. The Amoco Foundation recently completed a $1 million, five-year pledge to Northwestern University toward the construction of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science now under construction on the Evanston campus.
