STATE UNIVERSITIES
CMU medical school awarded technology grant
The Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program of the United States Department of Agriculture has awarded $297,671 to the Central Michigan University College of Medicine. This grant will allow third-year medical students in CMU’s Comprehensive Community Clerkship to use interactive video to stay in touch with CMU faculty and staff. The CCC program places students with physician mentors for six months in rural and underserved clinics and hospitals in Michigan.
LSSU plans $13.5M business school renovation
Lake Superior State University’s Board of Trustees has voted to increase the university’s South Hall building project to $13.5 million, which is $1.5 million more than the project’s original projected cost. Once completed, the newly refurbished South Hall will house LSSU’s Lukenda School of Business. The project is set to begin in spring 2015; the building will be renamed the R.W. Considine Hall after LSSU benefactor Robert Considine of Trout Lake, Michigan.
MSU alumni create $500,000 engineering fellowship
Michigan State University alumni Jack and Dottie Withrow of Naples, Florida, who are longtime supporters of the MSU College of Engineering, have established the Withrow Endowed Graduate Fellowship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, MSU’s newest department. This $500,000 gift establishes an endowment that will support MSU biomedical engineering in perpetuity.
PEER INSTITUTIONS
Columbia establishes neurotechnology center
Columbia University has announced the establishment of an interdisciplinary NeuroTechnology Center with a mission to develop advanced technologies for the study of neurobiological systems. The new center will unite Columbia researchers in the biological, physical, engineering and data sciences, supporting and facilitating the education and training of students, faculty and postdoctoral researchers. The center’s initial activities are funded by a seed gift from the Kavli Foundation.
Northwestern alumni donate $10 million
Gordon and Carole Segal, co-founders of Crate & Barrel and longtime supporters of Northwestern University, their alma mater, have committed approximately $10 million to the Northwestern through a planned gift. Northwestern will recognize the Segals’ gift by naming the university’s new visitors center the Segal Visitors Center. Northwestern opened the 170,000-square-foot facility this fall for prospective students and their families.
