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College program gets gift – $8.2 million to go to health sciences

Not long ago, Sara Morrison-Soncini, a respiratory therapy student at the College of Southern Nevada, pleaded with government officials not to cut her school’s budget.

“It was devastating,” she said. Things changed Monday when the college announced its largest donation ever, $8.2 million from the Engelstad Family Foundation.

The money will be used to expand and strengthen the college’s cardiorespiratory sciences program. “It’ll give us the opportunity to work with more updated equipment,” said Morrison-Soncini, 25. Read full story:

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