Faculty and Alumni News
Faculty and Alumni New s Faculty Exceeds $50-Million Mark in Campaign McGill ust two years after launching the public phase of its ambitious Campaign McGill: History in the Making , the University has surpassed the $500-million point, with Jthe Faculty of Science chalking up more than $ 50 million in gifts and pledges. From alumni to foundations and friends, the support has been generous. Despite the economic difficulties of the past year, the Faculty—which aims to raise more than $85 million by 2012—was able to count on the goodwill of its supporters. Among the notable gifts was a seven-figure donation by Richard Hart , PhD’70, for Science fellowships . Hart, a longtime supporter of the Faculty and a member of the Faculty’s advisory board since 2000, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Alumni Association in 2004. David Pelletier , BSc ’72, also established a Fellowship in Mathematics in December 2008, which was matched by McConnell Matching Funds. Like Hart, Pelletier is a longtime advisory board member, and his family includes a long list of McGill alumni. Other significant donations came from the Hylcan Foundation in support of Forging nanotubes out of DNA the Redpath Museum , Richard Tomlinson , A team of Department of Chemistry researchers led by PhD’48, DSc’01, with a gift to the Hanadi Sleiman in collaboration with Gonzalo Cosa (above), Tomlinson Scholars , as well as from has succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, T Terry Meguid , BSc’78, Donald Bubar , one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology BSc’77, Paul Petras , BSc’75, and Ali Torabi of the future, out of biological DNA.
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