Before heading off to the Charleston Conference last week, I blogged about the big announcement of Pierre Lassonde's big $25 million donation to York to found the Lassonde School of Engineering.
I attended the announcement and livetweeted it quite extensively: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
I also created a Storify story of a fair bit of the quite extensive twitter traffic of the annoucement and that is here. I've embedded the Story at the end of this post. It's mostly tweeting form the day of the announcement but I have added quite a few more since then.
Also, some of the internal press release, bloggy and other coverage:
- Philanthropist Pierre Lassonde donates $25 million to Engineering at York
- Engineering The Future At York University
- York U receives $25-million gift from Pierre Lassonde for Engineering
- A Transformative Gift to York University
- Pierre Lassonde donates $25 million to York
- Philanthropist Pierre Lassonde donates $25 million to York
- Mining entrepreneur's university donation digging for 'renaissance engineers'
- York U receives $25-million gift from Pierre Lassonde for Engineering
- Lassonde donates $25M to York U's engineering program
- York U launches Lassonde School of Engineering with $25-million gift
- Mining entrepreneur donates $25 million to York U. engineering school
- After hiring Sting for his wife's birthday, philanthropist donates $25 million to York U
- Mining Mogul Pledges $25-Million to Boost Engineering at Toronto School
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