$30-Million Gift to Help Found 3 Quake Centers
The National Science Foundation on Tuesday awarded $30 million in grants over a five-year period to establish earthquake engineering research centers at UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The centers will be devoted to finding ways to reduce the cost of and casualties from major quakes.
On the Pacific Coast, personnel from eight other universities will be partners in the Berkeley facility, sharing in the federal money. The other schools are UCLA, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Stanford, Caltech, USC and the University of Washington.
The program calls for the foundation to invest $2 million a year at each of the three new centers, which are expected to match that money from non-federal sources.
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