UK Announces 'Digital Village' Construction Project
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 8, 2008)
The University of Kentucky will build an $18.6 million building to house high-technology research on visualization, computer science and electrical and computer engineering as part of a "Digital Village" complex in the Maxwell Street-Rose Street vicinity.
UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. announced the project, which will be funded through $9.3 million from private donors, with the remainder coming from the state's Research Challenge Trust Fund.
"When we released our Top 20 Business Plan, we made clear that we would fund 40 percent of the plan ourselves," said UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. Today, we are pleased to show the Commonwealth that we are intent on keeping that promise. Thanks to generous private support from three great friends of the University, UK is proud to announce its first building to be constructed solely from private donations and the Bucks for Brains matching program. Press Release Continued
