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| ‘Transformational’ gift reinforces Clemson packaging design & graphics A $60 million private donation to Clemson University in the USA, the largest-ever in the university’s history, will benefit business students, including those studying packaging design and graphics. South Carolina philanthropists Wilbur O. and his wife Ann Powers made th  is generous donation towards a College of Business that will bear their own names, housed in a new building that officially opened this semester.The university believes this “transformational gift” will lay the foundations for what will become a nationally recognized program for educating global leaders, according to dean of the new College of Business Wendy York. “This will benefit business education students at Clemson University for generations to come, including those in our Department of Graphic Communications, the Erwin Center for Brand Communications and the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics,” she tells IAPRI. Programs in all of these departments and institutes “have strong experiential learning and internship components that will benefit from the visionary give from Wilbur O. and Ann Powers,” she adds.   Published: 10/28/20 |