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Posted: 2:46 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 2013

Couple makes $1M gift to establish professorship at Penn State

By The Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. —

A California couple has donated $1 million to Penn State's department of industrial engineering.

The Centre Daily Times reports the donors are alumnus Tom Lucas, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1976, and his wife, Nicki, who are from Trabuco Canyon, Calif.

The money will create an endowed professorship. Department head Paul Griffin said it will help add a top-notch faculty member and also provide resources for current and future students.

Lucas retired last year after a career in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industry.

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