$5 million gift to Missouri University of Science and Technology will help create new entrance to campus

Missouri University of Science and Technology will use a $5 million donation to help create an Arrival District that will serve as a new "front door" for the Rolla campus.

The Arrival District is part of the university’s 2020 Campus Master Plan and the Move Rolla Transportation Development District, a partnership with the city of Rolla, Phelps County, and Phelps Health.

The project will connect the university’s entry point off Interstate 44 to campus through a series of landscape and building projects that also will improve access along Bishop Avenue and direct visitors through a grand entrance plaza into a campus commons area featuring gardens and walkway

Missouri S&T alumnus Tim Bradley and his wife, Kay, contributed $5 million to the university in support of the Arrival District. Their gift will support the reconfiguration of University Drive from U.S. Interstate 44 to campus and name it Bradley Way.

“We are deeply grateful to Tim and Kay for this vote of confidence in Missouri S&T and our future,” says S&T Chancellor Mo Dehghani. “The Bradleys have been strong supporters of scholarships, our petroleum engineering program and Kappa Alpha fraternity for many years. Now they have stepped forward as the first donors to support a major project that will give our university, the Rolla community and visitors to our campus a true front door to S&T.”

Bradley is the retired president of Kinder Morgan CO2 Co in Houston. She graduated from Missouri S&T in 1977 and is a member of the Missouri S&T Board of Trustees.