Eugene Trani’s career and VCU milestones
| FROM THE NEWSROOM: • SLIDESHOW: VCU - The Trani Years • VCU's Trani transformed school, city and lives • Trani will teach after sabbatical • Bio and milestones • VCU at a glance FROM THE OPINION SECTION: EDITORIAL: Legacy COMMENTARIES: • Trani Built a Better VCU • VCU Hurt Historic Neighborhoods • Trani's Complex Academic Legacy |
Born: November 1939, New York City
Family: wife Lois, two adult children
Education: bachelor's degree in history, University of Notre Dame; master's and doctoral degrees in history, Indiana University
Career path: teaching and administrative positions at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the University of Missouri at Kansas City; Fulbright lecturer in the Soviet Union, teaching American history at Moscow State University in 1981; vice president for academic affairs and professor of history in the University of Wisconsin system
March 1990: Trani is elected president by the board of visitors. He begins his duties in July.
1998: New $42 million School of Engineering building, partly financed by Motorola Inc., opens at Belvidere and Main streets.
1999: $30.1 million, 190,000square-foot Stuart C. Siegel Center opens, becoming home to VCU athletics; VCU Fine Arts Building opens at 1000 W. Broad St.
2001: The $28 million Eugene P. and Lois E. Trani Center for Life Sciences opens at the corner of Cary and Harrison streets.
2003: The $17.2 million student apartments, with 412 beds and a parking deck, open at Broad and Belvidere.
2008: VCU dedicates the 240,000square-foot, $84.3 million business and engineering complex that is Phase I of the largest construction project in the school's history.
2008: VCU Medical Center's $192 million Critical Care Hospital opens.
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