Development
The new academic year is off to an energetic start. Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life has a new website, which was launched on October 18. The success of the Discovery and Impact lecture series, inaugurated last year, has led to plans for another series in spring 2005 intended to engage prospective donors. And, the BSD and Hospitals have collaborated to initiate a new annual giving program – the Forefront Fund.
The Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life website can be found at www.sparkdiscovery.uchicago.edu and offers news about the campaign, features programs at the forefront of science and medicine, and tells stories of some of the visionary philanthropists who are making a real impact. The site also includes a secure on-line giving option. Gifts can be made to the campaign in general or designated to specific departments or sections.
Faculty will present three topics at Discovery and Impact dinners next spring – infectious diseases and bioterrorism, breast cancer, and minimally invasive surgery. These programs offer prospective contributors the opportunity to be inspired by breakthrough work at Chicago.
The Forefront Fund is a new annual giving program aimed at broad participation and chaired by trustees Stanford Goldblatt, Kevin Brown, and Deborah Bricker. It will provide ongoing, discretionary support for both the BSD and the Hospitals.
Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life is on target to reach its goal of $550 million goal by December 2006. As of October 1, approximately $405 million has been raised!
For more information about any of these initiatives or 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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DISCOVERIES
The BSD to announce the appointment of T. Conrad Gilliam, Ph.D., as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Human Genetics, effective September 1, 2004...
DEVELOPMENT
The new academic year is off to an energetic start. Spark Discovery, Illuminate Life has a new website, which was launched on October 18...
Dollars and Sense
The BSD financial highlights for fiscal year 2004
In Memoriam
Stanley Yachnin, M.D., professor emeritus and former section chief of hematology and oncology at the University of Chicago, died at his daughter's home in Hyde Park on Monday, Aug. 30...
ACCOLADES
Recent Awards and Grants Information for Biological Sciences Division Faculty
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Recent Recruitemnts and Appointments of Biological Sciences Division Faculty
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