The Carnegie Campaign for Science is Off to a Strong Start

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Just two months after the public announcement, The Carnegie Campaign for Science has reached several significant milestones. As of February 1, 2002, the campaign has received $32 million in pledges and gifts from individuals and foundations, an amount that is more than 40 percent of its goal of $75 million. An anonymous donor established a $1-million fellowship in honor of Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin Postdoctoral Fellows will work either at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, where Dr. Rubin continues her 30 years of research, or at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. Another campaign fund, established in memory of former Staff Member Thomas Hoering, will enable researchers at the Geophysical Laboratory to continue to develop and acquire cutting-edge instrumentation for their work. The institution is seeking additional gifts to support fellowships, instrumentation, and special projects in other Carnegie departments.

Elsewhere in the campaign, groundbreaking for the Maxine F. Singer Building, the new home for the Department of Embryology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is scheduled for August of this year. The new building will provide state-of-the-art animal laboratories for Staff Members, staff associates, and postdoctoral fellows as well as offices and meeting rooms, making the new structure a vast improvement over the current facility. In California, Carnegie’s new Department of Global Ecology has selected the architectural firm of Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis (EHDD) to design an environmentally friendly “green building,” which will be located adjacent to the Department of Plant Biology on the campus of Stanford University.