Notebook • Volume XX VI • 2018
GARY AND ANN CROCKER SCIENCE CENTER
Opening the Doors to a New Gener ation of Scientists A new era of scientific education and research is dawning. In April, University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins and
an engine of creativity that will bless and enrich the lives of
College of Science Dean Henry S. White, along with Gary and
Utahans for generations to come,” says Gary Crocker. “It isn’t
Ann Crocker and Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert, celebrated the
often that a facility is created that will have such a tremendous
opening of the new Gary and Ann Crocker Science Center on
impact on the entire university community, with interdisciplin-
Presidents Circle.
ary instruction, research and commercialization focus areas
Housed in the historic and newly renovated George Thom-
throughout this historic building. We applaud the University of
as Building, the Crocker Science Center will be the new home
Utah for its leadership and vision in establishing this national
to the Henry Eyring Center for Cell and Genome Science, the
center of STEM excellence.”
Center for Science and Math Education, modern classrooms and
The project also received $34 million from the State of
laboratories for interdisciplinary science and math education,
Utah, as well as generous donations from additional benefac-
and a technology incubator space.
tors, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Gary and Ann Crocker provided a personal lead gift of $10
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“Ann and I are confident that this science center will be
the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Kirk Ririe and Mary Jane
million toward the renovation and expansion of the George
O’Connor-Ririe, Harris Simmons and Amanda Pahnke Simmons,
Thomas Building.
the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the
