Holy Cross Celebrates Official Opening of Integrated Science Complex

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<p>Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph E. Murray ’40 to be in attendance at dedication and blessing on March 23 </p>

<p>WORCESTER, Mass. – Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president of the College of the Holy Cross, and Timothy R. Austin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College, will preside at a dedication and blessing ceremony for Holy Cross’ new state-of-the-art, $64 million science complex on March 23 at 4 p.m. in the Swords Atrium. Tours of the building will be offered beginning at 3 p.m., and a reception will follow the formal program. The events are free and open to the public. </p>

<p>Among those in attendance will be Dr. Joseph E. Murray ’40, who performed the first successful organ transplant in 1954, thus ushering in a new era in medicine. Murray’s subsequent research advanced doctors’ ability to prevent transplant rejection, and in 1990 he was honored for his pioneering medical work with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. </p>

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