SOUTHFIELD – An anonymous $3 million gift announced Aug. 25 has provided a big boost to Dean Hsiao-Ping Moore’s plans for expanding life sciences programming in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lawrence Technological University.
The added financial support will be used to upgrade existing life sciences facilities, and a $1 million endowment fund will provide annual income for endowed professorships, start-up funds for new faculty, research supplies and equipment replacement and repair. Part of the funds also will be set aside for building a new life sciences laboratory, and there are plans to establish an institute of molecular medicine.
The gift will help Lawrence Tech play a more prominent role in the development of life sciences in Michigan, according to Moore.
?This field is growing and evolving very rapidly, and now Lawrence Tech is well positioned to contribute both research and educational resources,? Moore said. ?Our students will benefit from the role Lawrence Tech is playing, and our graduates will become leaders in the field.?
Moore?s vision for life sciences at Lawrence Tech is based in large part on her work as a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a professor of molecular and cell biology. She didn?t leave her research behind when she came to Lawrence Tech in 2005 to become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Instead, her passion for basic research in molecular and cell biology became the starting point for new academic programs in life sciences at a university traditionally known more for engineering and architecture. Her added administrative responsibilities may have cut down on her time in the lab, but her position has enabled her to expand Lawrence Tech?s curriculum in new directions.
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