UPEI receives $6M gift

UPEI has received a $6-million donation from Allan Curran, a 1962 graduate of St Dunstan’s University, who was conferred a UPEI Honorary Degree in 2017.  Curran is from Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, and it’s the largest single private donation in one day that UPEI has ever received.  The funds will be divided, with $4 million for the Robertson Library’s $15-million “Love Our Library” revitalization campaign and $2 million for the Faculty of Medicine’s $10-million fundraising campaign.  In recognition of Curran’s donation to the Library, the Archives and Special Collections area and the adjacent student learning commons will be named the “Curran Family Special Collections and Student Learning Commons.”