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The University of North Georgia's (¾«¶«Ó°Òµ) College of Science & Mathematics is raising funds for a new science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) building. Housed on ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's Dahlonega Campus, the building will be home to the college's four departments, facilitating a synergistic STEM learning environment.  

Alumni Stewart Swanson, '85, and Carol Swanson, '86, have pledged to match every gift received from faculty or staff based on the Dahlonega Campus with $1,000, up to a total of $250,000. The aim is that with large private donations in hand for ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ, the University System of Georgia will fund the remaining cost of the building, should the need arise.

In a nod to the history of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ, a donation of $18.73 or more will have the donor's name appear on the "Giving Wall" inside the future building, courtesy of the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Foundation.

"¾«¶«Ó°Òµ and the College of Science & Mathematics are grateful for the opportunity afforded to us by Stewart and Carol Swanson," Dr. John Leyba, dean of the College of Science & Mathematics, said. "With the help of their generous matching gift along with gifts from our faculty and staff, we will get closer to realizing our dream of a state-of-the-art STEM facility. This wonderful new building will change the lives of future generations of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ students."

With the help of their generous matching gift along with gifts from our faculty and staff, we will get closer to realizing our dream of a state-of-the-art STEM facility.

Dr. John Leyba

College of Science & Mathematics dean

The new facility the new STEM building will help produce high-quality graduates who are well-positioned to go directly into the workforce, attend professional or graduate schools and/or join the U.S. military.

Active learning classrooms with movable furniture and abundant writing surfaces, monitors, and projection screens will be featured in the new building to allow for a wide variety of teaching approaches. The new building will have flexible laboratory space that can be used for multidisciplinary studies, eliminating the inefficiency of discipline-specific laboratories, and research space.