{"id":3477,"date":"2022-10-21T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2022-10-21T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T19:38:22","slug":"troy-university-arboretum-awarded-25000-grant-for-continued-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/10\/21\/troy-university-arboretum-awarded-25000-grant-for-continued-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy University Arboretum awarded $25,000 grant for continued upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama made a $25,000 donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/colleges-schools\/college-arts-sciences\/departments\/school-science-technology\/biological-environmental-sciences\/arboretum.html\">Arboretum<\/a> Restoration Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The donation was the largest gift the Biology Department has received since taking on the restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is extraordinary,&#8221; says Biology Professor Alvin Diamond. &#8220;This is the largest donation we&#8217;ve received thus far in our campaign to get the Arboretum back up and running it&#8217;s going to go a long way. It&#8217;s also going to help us as seed money to get other donations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money will go towards restoring a major part of the facility that went into disrepair and expanding resources for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is going to go to replacing a bridge that goes to the island in Mullis Pond,&#8221; says Diamond. &#8220;Also a floating dock area where students will be able to safely get out on the water to do sampling of water testing, macroinvertebrates and fish things like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hyundai Representatives say the company was excited for the opportunity to help the university with a project like the Arboretum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Making a contribution to the Troy University Foundation and Arboretum is an important part of our own pillars here with our corporate social responsibility efforts with Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama,&#8221; says HMMA Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Robert\u00a0Burns. &#8220;It takes care of not only education but also environmental.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Emmaleigh&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama made a $25,000 donation to Troy University&#8216;s Arboretum Restoration Project.<\/p>\n<p>The donation was the largest gift the Biology Department has received since taking on the restoration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is extraordinary,&#8221; says Biology Professor Alvin Diamond. &#8220;This is the largest donation we&#8217;ve received thus far in our campaign to get the Arboretum back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/10\/21\/troy-university-arboretum-awarded-25000-grant-for-continued-upgrades\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[956,1035],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arboretum","tag-biology-department"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}