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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TERESA HEINZ PROFESSORSHIP IN SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

WHEREAS, Teresa Heinz is one of the most important environmental leaders in the United States; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Heinz, as chair of the Heinz Family Philanthropies and the Howard Heinz Endowment, has helped develop strategies to protect the environment; and

WHEREAS, under Mrs. Heinz's leadership, one of the established goals of the Heinz Endowments is to promote the design of urban environments in ways that advance sustainable communities; and

WHEREAS, the Vira I. Heinz Endowment has made a generous gift to the School of Architecture to establish a professorship; and

WHEREAS, the Saunders family, through the Saunders Professors Fund, has matched the gift of the Heinz Endowment;

RESOLVED that the Board of Visitors establishes the Teresa Heinz Professorship in Sustainable Communities, to be held in the School of Architecture, and expresses its appreciation to the Vera I. Heinz Endowment and the Saunders family for their generosity.