BC expands further into sciences with gift from Apple executive

Boston College will begin construction on a $150 million lab and classroom facility in 2019 and plans to open it two years later, BC officials are scheduled to announce Friday.

The facility will be called the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, after Phil Schiller, a Newton native and a senior vice president at Apple, who has been responsible for marketing many of the technology company’s high-profile products, from the Mac computer to the iPhone. Schiller, a 1982 BC graduate and his wife, Kim Gassett-Schiller, are giving $25 million toward the construction of the new institute. The Boston Globe