UM‑Dearborn CASL STEM Equipment Fund ‑ 358312

Gifts will be used to upgrade, replace, and maintain laboratory equipment so students can benefit from hands-on learning in modern research techniques utilizing high-tech equipment such as a confocal microscope, mass spectrometer, scanning electron microscope, an elemental analyzer, and a real-time polymerase chain reaction thermocycler. Access to high-tech scientific equipment significantly enhances students’ skill sets making them more attractive to future employers and as candidates for admission to professional and graduate schools. Access to modern equipment also helps CASL attract and retain the highest caliber faculty and researchers in chemistry, biology, physics, environmental sciences, and other scientific fields as well as provide a mechanism for attracting productive collaborations with industry and academic partners. The highest priorities for CASL STEM equipment replacement are a NMR and a Confocal Microscope which will cost $700,000 to replace while an annual equipment budget of $1M in expendable funds will ensure continued excellence in scientific education and research. Endowed gifts of $100K or more will support equipment purchases, maintenance, and upgrades in perpetuity.