Boston – More than a hundred business leaders attended a reception recently for former UMass Building Authority (UMBA) boss David MacKenzie at the UMass Club in Boston.
MacKenzie was praised for the many great building projects he oversaw as executive director for the past seven years by University President Robert Caret, chairman of the UMBA Board, SBLI President Robert Sheridan and new UMBA Director Katherine Craven.
President Caret used the occasion to announce that UMass will undergo a $3 billion capital improvement program to further enhance the university’s academic appeal.
Among the building projects currently underway on UMass campuses statewide, Craven will continue to manage construction on the much-anticipated Sherman Center at Worcester Medical School,a $432 million research facility that will be at the forefront of the nation’s battle against cancer and the new laboratory for Nobel Prize winner Dr. Craig Mello.