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January 25, 2011

$1.2M to fund NMCC energy center

By The Mainebiz News Staff

Northern Maine Community College has received $1.2 million to open an alternative energy education and training center.

The funding from Presque Isle native Mary Smith is one of the largest private contributions a community college in Maine has received, according to a press release. The college will use the money to establish the Northern Maine Center for Excellence in Alternative Energy Training and Education, a concept already in the works but which had lacked funding to move ahead. NMCC plans to spend $500,000 on the center and $650,000 on instructional equipment to expand its wind power technology program, allowing the school to double its enrollment of first-year students in the program from 18 to 36, according to the release.

Smith donated the money in memory of her late husband, Rodney Smith, a former general manager at Fairchild Semiconductor's California facility and former CEO of Altera Corp., which designs custom logic devices.

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