A gift of $20 million to the Columbia University Medical Center will support the construction of a new Medical and Graduate Education Building, part of Columbias recent effort to revitalize the Medical Center campus.

The donation from Philip Milstein, CC 71, and Cheryl Milstein, BC 82, was announced last Monday.

The new building will be geared specifically toward training students in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences biomedical science departments. Construction on the building began in August 2012 and is scheduled to finish in 2016.

Medical center administrators said in a statement that the building will include innovative classroom and study spaces that will incorporate state-of-the-art information technology while facilitating collaborative, team-based learning.

University President Lee Bollinger highlighted the Milsteins legacy of supporting Columbia and the medical center in particular.

Over a lifetime of exceptional accomplishment, Philip Milstein has maintained an enduring commitment to his alma mater, and for that Columbia will be forever grateful, Bollinger said. This latest gift extends the familys ongoing commitment to ensuring world class medical training and the highest quality health care that saves lives and finds new cures.

The Milstein family has made leading donations for the Milstein Hospital Building, the main building of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and for the creation of the Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Foundation in 2005. Columbia has given Philip Milstein multiple awards, including the Alexander Hamilton Medal in 2001, for his service.

This is the latest of several donations to the Medical Center, including a $25 million donation from Mayor Michael Bloomberg in February to fund amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and a donation from Roy Vagelos, P&S 54, and Diana Vagelos, BC 55, in 2010 to support the construction of the education building.

Biology professor Andrea Califano said that the new building would create an opportunity to address what he called one of the critical deficiencies of our current campus: the lack of community-building student space on the medical campus.

This is really going to create a completely new focus, Califano said, adding that the new building will create social context for interaction that doesnt currently exist.

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Hanover Seated in a green leather armchair, wearing a suit and overcoat and with his legs crossed at the knee, Steve Lubrano certainly looked the part of a college administrator yesterday morning. However, the Tuck School of Business dean wasnt in Dartmouth Colleges Alumni Gym for a meeting. He was there for gear.

Specifically, sports gear.

My three daughters go through athletic equipment like you wouldnt believe, said Lubrano, a Tuck graduate whose family lives in Hanover. Getting Dartmouth-branded apparel is a neat opportunity to support the school and get useful things at the same time.

It was an opportunity taken by roughly 200 people in just the opening 90 minutes of the three-day sale held in a room adjacent to the gyms Karl Michael Pool. The sale continues today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

At one point during yesterdays early going, assistant equipment manager Ernie Gour had to act as a doorman, allowing only as many customers inside at one time as had just exited.

I cant believe how many people are here, a Dartmouth student said to his buddy as the pair jostled their way among 33 tables covered in green-and-white shirts, pants, jackets, socks, scarves, jerseys, equipment bags and more.

This place is packed.

Although there were composite hockey sticks (snatched up early) and a few racks of baseball, basketball, softball and womens hockey jerseys marked at $25 each, the sale is slanted more toward the mundane.

Practice jerseys on one table, warmup jackets and pants on another, large-size basketball sneakers over there. Big Green linebacker Michael Runger stopped by to grab a pair of the latter in size 13, which he said arent always available in stores and certainly not for $10 per pair.

Nearby, Thetford resident Gail Slider stood in a lengthening line with a few jackets and equipment bags for her children, ages 10 and 8. She had delayed her start at a new job until 10 a.m. so she could make a quick swing by the sale, which she had visited three years ago, the last time it was held.

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Sam Clanton is a former NASA engineer who operated a technology consulting firm in Equador before returning to school to pursue a Ph.D. in robotics and a medical degree.

He now researches systems that allow disabled patients to control robots with their brains and will start work as a resident physician this year.

Peter Bierman built a computer network in high school, was kicked out of college, worked for Apple for 11 years and then retired to play hockey.

He now researches computer vision and takes Zamboni lessons.

Caroline Petitti has spent the past four years designing children's museums, science centers and theme parks all over the world.

All three are graduates of Worthington's Linworth Alternative Program who spoke at the Linworth forum March 20.

Twenty-four young adults who graduated between 1992 and 2008 spoke to current students about how to succeed in life after Linworth.

Classes were canceled for the day so that students could meet with the graduates, either in person or through Skype.

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