About the Science Initiative |
| >>Download the Science Initiative Brochure (pdf) |
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| The West Michigan region is experiencing an amazing expansion in scientific and medical research practitioners and facilities, patient care and diagnoses, and technological innovation supported on both the state and federal levels. |
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| The "Medical Mile," the Van Andel Institute, and the Michigan State College of Human Medicine-Secchia Center, are all now situated atop the Michigan Street hill in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. East of the city, the Amway corporation continues to provide student summer internships in its product laboratories. |
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| Undergraduate student research at Pierce Cedar Creek Institute |
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Just south of Grand Rapids, the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute (PCCI) station in Hastings, Michigan, offers field research opportunities to students and their faculty mentors from area colleges and universities with its Undergraduate Research Grants for the Environment (URGE) program.
To keep pace with these exciting developments and to insure that Aquinas students have the laboratory training to take advantage of them, the Natural Science Nursing and Mathematics (NSNM) division launched the Science Initiative (SI) in the spring of 2004.
The SI established three initial goals: to create a new equipment fund to invigorate academic laboratory and research training and to establish endowments to support the students and the faculty of the NSNM division. |
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| The SI focused on attracting the participation of the more than 1,400 science graduates who have been educated at Aquinas College since 1950. Our alumni responded magnificently.
More than $600,000 has been contributed to the new equipment fund over the past five years. |
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| The Dennison Mohler and the Darrell and Duane Thompson Endowments now stand at $3,200,000 and provide scholarship support to students majoring in science as well as stipends to those participating as Mohler-Thompson Student Researchers in a ten-week summer program. |
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| The Research and Equipment (RE) Endowment recently received an initial gift of $50,000 to further its goal of creating a $1,000,000 endowment fund that supports the equipment and program needs of the NSNM division. |
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| What's next? A great deal. |
| The Science Initiative Advisory Committee (SIAC) has now turned its attention to Albertus Hall - home to the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Nursing, and Physics. |
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| Dedicated in 1960 and last renovated in 1989, Albertus Hall is the subject of a comprehensive study being conducted by the URS Corporation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. An architectural and engineering firm with international experience in the design of technical facilities, URS is in the process of producing a preliminary estimate and project timeline for a major renovation of
Albertus Hall.
Exciting things are happening in West Michigan and exciting developments at Aquinas College
are keeping pace with them. We continue to rely on the contributions of our science alumni and alumnae as well as the many loyal supporters of Aquinas College in the West Michigan region.
Look at what we've done and what we hope to do. Want to join us in these efforts?
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| Renovation of Albertus Hall in 1989 |
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| Contact: |
Cynthia W. Dorman
Manager, Advancement Strategies
Phone:
(616) 632-2836
E-mail: dormacyn@aquinas.edu. |
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