With the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life campaign has reached the $400 million mark and is on pace to meet a goal of $550 million by December 2006. The campaign supports science and medicine at Chicago through gifts to both the Biological Sciences Division and the University of Chicago Hospitals. Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life is the largest component of The Chicago Initiative, the University's historic effort to raise $2 billion.

More than half of campaign giving, approximately $200 million, has been contributed by individuals and families, with private foundations providing another $100 million. Corporations, auxiliary groups, and research organizations have contributed generously as well.

The campaign supports teaching, research, and patient care in many areas. Spark Discovery donors have made investments in people and in the facilities and resources to support Chicago's leading physicians and scientists. For example, fifteen new endowed professorships have been contributed thus far during the campaign, underwriting positions for distinguished faculty members. An early success of the campaign was raising $70 million for the new Comer Children's Hospital and for programs in the Department of Pediatrics. The new Hospital will open in December 2004.

Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life is led by co-chairs Craig Duchossois and Jim Frank, with committee members Terry Graunke, Edgar Jannotta, Barry MacLean, Tom Reynolds, and Paula Wolff. Dean James Madara, Hospitals President and CEO Mike Riordan, and University President Don Randel provide additional campaign leadership. When completed in December 2006, the campaign will provide the resources to advance key AIMS of the Division, including more than thirty new research scientists, endowed professorships for senior faculty, student aid, core facilities, and laboratory renovatoin as well as new research and patient care facilities.

For more information on the Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life campaign,and on philanthropy and on philanthropy and fundraising for the biological sciences, please contact Michele Schiele, Vice President and Associate Dean for Development at (773) 702-4767 or at mschiele@mcdmail.uchicago.edu.

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