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Student and Faculty Needs

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To purchase an item on our wish list, please follow the above link to the giving page. From the "Give Now" link, click "online" and check the box, "I'd like to choose my areas of support." A menu will appear where you can choose the desired fund. Also there is a box to type in "gift areas" on the main billing page.

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The Alter Arboretum

  • Collections enhancement, Plant a Tree - $500 per tree
  • Arboretum tree labels - $10,000

Department of Biological Sciences

  • Antigen Retrieval System - $1,500
  • Histology processing & embedding station - $10,000
  • Swinging bucket rotor - $8,000
  • New Brunswick Cell Culture Roller Drum - $2,500
  • New Brunswick Benchtop Incubating Shaker - $6,600
  • New Brunswick Floor Incubating Shaker - $11,075
  • Advanced Fluorescence Imaging Core - $100 or more - up to $20,000
  • Gamma counter - $35,000
  • Scintilation counter - $20,000
  • Leica EM IGL (immunogold labeling system) - $18,577

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Lab Quest Mini Interface - 10 or more @$150 each
  • Large scale distillation kit - 10 or more @$200 each
  • DigiMelt melting point apparatus - 10 or more @ $800 each
  • Fourier Transform Infra-red Spectrometer - $30,000
  • Neubilizer for the ESI IT Mass Spectrometer - $1,000
  • New sample stage for the MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometer - $18,000

Department of Geography

  • General support for student field trips and field research activities - $10,000
  • Giddings hydraulic soil sampling, coring and drilling machine - $36,699
  • Projector - $350 

Department of Mathematics

  • Equipment for the new Math Center in Penrose - $8,000
  • Graduate student support to attend conferences - 5 @ 1,000 each, $5,000
  • Math colloquium funding - 3 visits @ $2,000 each, $6,000

Department of Physics

  • Site licenses for Mathematica/Matlab - $10,000
  • Poster frames/display cases for building - $2,500
  • 4 smart boards, furniture and wiring for MIT-style interactive classroom - $35,000
  • New computer nodes for HPC - $20,000
  • Video / teleconferencing equipment for Marlar - $1,000
  • Conductive tip amplifier stage for the AFM - $5,000
  • Turbo pump/leak detector station - $25,000
  • Thomas Stephen Endowed Memorial Fund - Any contribution helps, up to $12,000