PrintAn Exceptional Environment for Great Research
We hope to establish a $10 million fund to support centers, institutes, academic departments, and interdisciplinary graduate programs.
The potential of the faculty of the College of Chemical and Life Sciences to make high-impact, ground-breaking discoveries depends critically on a strong research infrastructure. Endowed funding for centers and institutes provide researchers with access to the specialized research facilities and technical support that sophisticated, contemporary science requires.
The centers and institutes that would be expanded and greatly enhanced by the success of Great Expectations include:
• Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB)
• Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization (CBSO)
• Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH)
• Center for Comparative Genomics (CCG)
• Center for Translational Science (CTS)
• Maryland Center for Integrated Nanoscience and Engineering (MCINSCE)
• Maryland Pathogen Research Institute (MPRI)
Endowed support for the college’s departments – Biology, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Entomology – will enable them to develop and sustain outstanding academic, research, and outreach programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. These funds will also support interdepartmental and interdisciplinary graduate programs such as Behavior Ecology and Systematics (BEES), Chemical Physics, Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES), and Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology (CONS).
