Please help support the outstanding learning environment in the
UW-Eau Claire physics and astronomy department through
your gift to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation. Your gift to accomplish any of
the following will help enhance student learning experiences
and provide valuable faculty resources. The amount in parentheses
indicates the annual amount required to meet current obligations.
- Establish a scholarship ($500 annual; $15,000 to endow).
- Support
Siker Opportunity Fund (gift of any amount up to $1,000 will
be matched).
- Support an existing physics and astronomy scholarship (gifts of any amount). Learn more.
- Support supplies for students participating
in annual Cleverly Cobbled Contraption Contest ($250).
- Provide
for upgrades to L.E. Phillips Planetarium, support for student
operator, staff supervision and community outreach ($2,000).
- Purchase equipment and supplies for student-faculty collaborative
research projects (for example, a wireless Internet-controlled
robot) ($1,000).
- Support summer stipends for faculty mentors to work with
students on collaborative research projects ($500 per stipend).
- Help bring in guest speakers to give talks on advancements in physics and astronomy ($1,000).
- Purchase new
eyepieces for telescopes on the roof of Phillips
Science Hall ($1,500).
- Support stipends and/or supplies/equipment
for students conducting science theater outreach demonstrations
($500 per stipend or $500 for supplies/equipment).
- Purchase equipment
and supplies for class projects and/or for departmental wood
and/or metal machine shops ($500).
- Contribute to the Physics and Astronomy
Advancement Fund, supporting teaching opportunities, student
and faculty scholarship, and other program priorities.
- Support renovation of office and faculty/staff workroom, making an inviting and comfortable space for administrative work and recruiting ($1,000-$5,000).
Thank
you for considering a gift to benefit the physics and astronomy department
at UW-Eau Claire.
For more information about the physics
and astronomy department or its specific needs, visit the department’s
Web site, e-mail chair
Erik Hendrickson at hendrije@uwec.edu or call (715)836-5834.
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