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Northeastern given $12M gift for homeland security facility
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With the largest gift for a capital project in its history, Northeastern University will build a homeland security research facility on its Burlington campus.
Alumni George J. Kostas donated $12 million to build the secure facility, which will be named the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security. It will be a multi-story building, designed in accordance with U.S. Department of Defense standards.
The facility will give Northeastern the security clearance necessary to conduct interdisciplinary research in areas critical to national security, including cryptography, data security, information assurance, detection of explosives and energy harvesting. The research conducted by the Kostas Institute will be part of a federally funded research portfolio of Northeastern’s College of Engineering.
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security selected Northeastern as one of 11 universities nationwide as a DHS Center in Excellence. With that recognition came a $10 million grant, used to establish the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosive-Related Threats at Northeastern.
Kostas graduated from Northeastern University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1943 with a career in synthetic rubber manufacturing and who founded Techno-Economic Services Co. in 1972. Kostas previously donated $2 million to Northeastern for the George J. Kostas Nanoscale Technology and Manufacturing Research Center.
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