Fordham Receives $100 Million Gift to Expand STEM Programs
A rendering of a new science building planned for Fordham University’s Bronx campus.
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Fordham University is getting a $100 million gift — the largest in the school’s history — to build a new science building on its Bronx campus and expand STEM offerings.
The donors are Maurice and Carolyn Cunniffe, Fordham alumni whose careers spanned investment banking and the cosmetics industry. Their goal is to improve science literacy and promote STEM-based professions at a time when a growing number of college-bound students say they want to major in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based fields.