CHICAGO -- The University of Chicago says it will be the first U.S. university to create a school of molecular engineering, thanks to a $100 million donation.
The university announced Tuesday that the new school will be known as the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. It will be supported by a gift from the Pritzker Foundation. The school is the university's first in engineering and its first new school in three decades.
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The school will aim to find new solutions for pressing global challenges, including immunotherapy-based approaches to cancer and the search for sustainable energy.
University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer says the gift will help expand work already underway with Argonne National Laboratory.
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The foundation is led by relatives of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, including former U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.