Chemistry Department Receives $10,000 for Undergraduate Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 2004
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Don Alger, Chemistry
530-898-5259
Chemistry Department Receives $10,000
for Undergraduate Research
Professor David Ball has received word of a $10,000 gift from Roche Palo Alto to the Department of Chemistry at California State University, Chico. Robert Wilhelm, vice president and therapy area head for respiratory diseases at Roche, said that the unrestricted award is to support Professor Ball’s work with undergraduate students in the area of synthetic organic chemistry.
Robert Wilhelm was an undergraduate at CSU, Chico, and David Ball served as his undergraduate research advisor and mentor.
This is the latest in a series of approximately $50,000 in gifts from Roche in support of undergraduate research in synthetic organic chemistry.
The money will be used to provide summer internships of $3,500 for chemistry students. Funding for summer internships comes from a variety of sources. In summer 2004, eight undergraduate students with paid research internships carried out research with six different chemistry faculty.
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