Please help support the outstanding learning environment in the UW-Eau Claire department of chemistry through your gift to the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.
All gifts are recognized as contributions to Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence, the Foundation's ongoing comprehensive campaign to benefit UW-Eau Claire's people and programs.
Your gift to 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:
Laboratory equipment
- Organic chemistry lab equipment: fund would support small equipment needs in the organic lab such as balances, melting point apparatus, variacs, hot plate/stirrers ($300-$3,000).
- Tunable dye laser: funding would provide key new experimental capabilities, including absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence excitation spectroscopy, and cavity ringdown spectroscopy ($20,000).
- Raman spectrometer: funding would allow the study of the vibration spectra of many molecules that cannot be studied by FTIR ($20,000-$40,000).
- Thermal analysis suite (thermogravimetric analyzer and differential scanning calorimeter): funding would make the analysis and characterization of polymeric and liquid crystalline materials possible ($50,000).
- Bench top powder X-ray diffractometer: funding would allow for the identification and characterization of bulk solid samples ($50,000).
- Single crystal X-ray diffraction area detector: funding would increase instrument speed, which would make it possible to include such experiments in upper-division instructional labs, and would broaden the use of X-ray crystallography in research programs that produce either very small or weakly diffracting crystalline samples ($130,000).
- Named Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Laboratory ($175,000).
Laboratory would need:
- Ultracentrifuge: for routine and specialized sample preparations ($35,000).
- Spectrophotometer with well plate reader: for modern bioassay ($20,000).
- Fluorescence DNA sequencer: a universal method of genomics ($50,000).
- Imaging system for DNA/RNA/protein chemiluminescence analysis: allowing up-to-date luminescent detection in place of expensive and potentially hazardous radioisotopes labeling ($40,000)
Student scholarships
- Recruiting scholarships: a fund to support one-year scholarships for the most academically gifted incoming freshman chemistry or biology/molecular biology students, to be used as a recruiting incentive ($1,000 annual, $20,000 endow).
- Chemistry fellowship: a fund to support a full-tuition, four-year scholarship for an outstanding chemistry student. Scholarship would have continuing requirements for GPA and credit progress (10 gifts of $15,000 to $20,000).
- Existing chemistry scholarships (gifts of any amount): Learn more.
Faculty development
- Named professorship: funding would endow two positions in the department. (A new endowed faculty position for $2.5 million and $1.5 million for endowing an existing position.)
For more information
For more information about the chemistry department in general or its specific needs, visit the department's Web site or call Scott Hartsel, chair, at (715) 836-4746.
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