Purdue Trustees recognize donors, approve Gateway II facility name
The board approved resolutions of appreciation for: Robert Buckman and Joyce Mollerup, to support the College of Engineering; Catherine and Jay Clements, to support the School of Industrial Engineering and the College of Veterinary Medicine; Peter and Ann Lambertus, to support the College of Engineering; and Richard and Jill Piasecki, to support the College of Engineering, the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research, and Purdue Polytechnic Institute.
![Photo of Robert Buckman and Joyce Mollerup](./board-trustees-gateway/RBuckman-JMollerup-web.jpg)
![Photo of Peter and Ann Lambertus](./board-trustees-gateway/Peter-Ann-Lambertus-web.jpg)
In recognizing these donors, Trustees further approved the naming of the Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program and of Lambertus Hall, the approximately 110,000-square-foot new facility currently known as the Gateway II facility bordering the west side of Knoy Hall. Buckman graduated from the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in 1959. Peter Lambertus is a 1967 electrical engineering graduate and received the Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae Award in 2020.
![Drawing 1 of Lambertus Hall](./board-trustees-gateway/Drawing1-web.jpg)
![Drawing 2 of Lambertus Hall](./board-trustees-gateway/Drawing2-web.jpg)