On Feb. 19, 2008, Lokey Laboratories which house the Nanoscience Research Center at the University of Oregon (UO) and affiliated with the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, was dedicated to Lorry I. Lokey for his $25 million donation toward the project.

Lokey was a journalist-turned-philanthropist who sold his global Business Wire news service to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in 2006. His gifts to the UO totaled $132 million, including $25 million for construction of the new $76 million Integrative Science Complex that comprises the new building and a second building scheduled to break ground in 2010.