BEND, OR -- OSU-Cascades received a $1 million gift, this month, pushing the university closer to its goal of building a second academic facility on the Bend campus.The new building would be focused on the STEAM studies of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (architectural rendering above). The donation came from the founder and President of Grace Bio Labs of Bend.

OSU-Cascades has now raised nearly $9 million of the $10 million match required for the state bonding proposed for the new building. The school received another $9.5 million from the Legislature and plans to ask for more to fund the new building in the February session.