Editing Darrin Fresh Water Institute (section)

=History=
The freshwater institute is named after Margaret A. and David M. Darrin and was first opened at Lake George located on Smith Bay in 1967.  But in 1981, the Darrins provided additional funding in order to move the DFWI to the “Sunnyshores Summer Resort”.  This is where it sits now, on Bolton Landing.  This moving was essential to be closer to RPI and more visible to the people in the Lake George community.

The institute remained the same until 1995, when a $2.5 million Research and Teaching Facility was built, replacing the old motel which was four units and was the laboratory for the institute for over 10 years.  In the early 2000s the main house of the institute had a major renovation and became an education center that now allows for year around research and education.  Later, in 2014 Rensselaer built the Helen-Jo and John E. Kelly III Data Visualization Laboratory, a state-of-the-art research center that is designed specifically to combine both cutting-edge graphics processing and modern data collection.