REPORT TO DONORS 2010
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Fall 2010 | Vol. 1
Robert Elde
Dean
Laurie Hennen
Development Director
Peggy Rinard
Communications Director and Editor
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Tim Rummelhoff
Photography
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Administrative Assistant
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CONTENTS
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From the Dean
Sharing the CBS Experience
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News Highlights
Features
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Out of Africa, onto Lake Street
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Laurie Hennen
A Cheerleader for Biology
Crazy for Critters
From Dishwasher to Doctor
Have Scooter, Will Travel
Make a Meaningful Gift
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A Living Memory
Endowed Itasca Scholarship
Honors Alumna Janet Boe
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Donor Honor Roll
Making a Difference
FROM THE DEAN
Sharing the CBS experience with future generations
Tim Rummelhoff
Welcome to the first issue of renew, an annual publication to
celebrate the generosity of our donors and showcase students
and initiatives that benefit from that generosity.
Despite the economy, contributions reached an all-time high
this year, nearly $1.7 million. That tells me you appreciate how
challenging it is for bright young people and their families to
afford a college education today and for CBS to provide highquality education given declining state support.
Many of you responded to our call for contributions to renovate
facilities at Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories. For this,
you have my heartfelt thanks. Itasca is a special place that exemplifies the beauty and value of biology. We now have nearly all the
private funds needed to break ground and hope to go back to
the legislature this year to seek the balance.
Each and every gift to CBS, no matter what the amount, is
important. Most of our donors are not wealthy, even those who
endow scholarships. They are people with average means who
want to share the CBS experience with future generations.
I’d like to thank all of you who made gifts during the past fiscal
year and share a few stories about exceptional giving.
Darby Nelson, (Ph.D. Zoology, ’70; M.S. Botany, ’68) a former
science teacher and legislator, and his wife, Geri (B.S. Botany,
‘68), contributed $300,000 to the Itasca Biological Station and
Laboratories building fund, a gift that reflects their passion for
Itasca and commitment to CBS.
R&D Systems added $250,000 to the Monica Tsang and
James Weatherbee Scholarship endowment. This brings the
total in this fund, which you can read about on page 8, to
$900,000.
Marcia Birney made a $300,000 bequest for the Birney Graduate Fellowship. Elmer Birney, who died in 2000, was a professor of ecology, evolution and behavior for 30 years.
And Jenna Racine, who graduated in May 2010 and is now
in medical school, was so inspired by the generosity of CBS
donors who helped her that she started her own fund last fall
with a check for $75.
On the following pages, you will find some examples of outstanding students like Jenna. I hope you will enjoy learning about
them and the good ways they are putting your investment in
them to work.
Sincerely,
Bob Elde, Dean
College of Biological Sciences
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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
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The CBS undergraduate
curriculum got a thumbs
up from a national team of
external reviewers after a
site visit this spring. Their
report stated that the Nature of Life program could
provide a national model
and that the researchbased Foundations of
Biology courses are the
future of science education. The team included
Bruce Alberts, editor of
Science, former president
of the National Academy
of Sciences, and former
chair of the National Re-
Ross Johnson
is an annual, statewide
competition that seeks out
aspiring entrepreneurs with
breakthrough ideas.
search Council; Bill Wood,
member of the National
Academy of Sciences and
the National Research
Council; and Ken Burtis,
dean of the College of
Biological Sciences at the
University of California,
Davis.
Ross Johnson
retires after 42
years at CBS
Ross Johnson, who joined
the CBS faculty in 1968,
when the college was only
three years old, is retiring
this year. Judd Sheridan,
who arrived the same
year, introduced Ross to
gap junctions (connections between cells that
allow molecules to move
between them), which
became the focus of his research for his entire career.
In addition to his scientific
expertise, Ross is known
for his Sven and Ole jokes
and giving his time generously to colleagues and
students. He served twice
as head of Genetics, Cell
Biology and Development
Mike O’Connor
discovers
metamorphosis
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and his lab was always
open to students, particularly undergraduates.
New CBS grad
lauded for pond
restoration
technology
Benjamin Schurhamer
(B.S. Biochemistry, ’10)
received top honors in
the student division of the
Minnesota Cup competition for Blue Water Ponds,
his Twin Cities-based pond
restoration company. Blue
Water Ponds offers an
“eco-friendly” approach to
restoring aquatic environments. Schurhamer
launched the company in
2007, while he was a CBS
student. Minnesota Cup
Mike O’Connor, professor
and head of the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, and
colleagues have discovered how a brain hormone
controls the metamorphosis of juvenile insects
into adults. The finding,
published in Science, will
help scientists understand
how insect body size is
programmed in response
to developmental and
environmental cues. It
could lead to environmentally safe ways to control
agricultural pests as well as
insects that carry human
pathogens. Since human
puberty is also regulated
by a brain hormone, understanding how this process
works in insects sheds light
on human development.
Biochemistry
undergrad wins
national
scholarship
CBS undergraduate Xiaoying Lou was one of only
two U of M students to win
a 2010 Goldwater Scholarship, which provides
$7,500 for her senior year.
Lou, who is majoring in
biochemistry, plans to
pursue an M.D./Ph.D. and
become a cardiothoracic
surgeon and researcher.
“The heart is a magnificent
organ,” Lou says. “I find
myself awed by its beauty
and elegance.” She wants
to attack heart disease at
all levels, from surgery to
treatment and, perhaps
most importantly,
prevention.
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CBS curriculum
gets an “A”
from national
reviewers
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Out of Africa, onto Lake Street
Memories of extreme hardship in Ethiopia and the privilege of a University
education motivate Damé Idossa to help Twin Cities’ immigrant communities.
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amé Idossa, her mother and a sister
lived in a rented kitchen with dirt
floors after her father, who opposed Ethiopia’s political regime, fled to the United
States to seek asylum for himself and his
family. During the three years it took for
that to happen, they sometimes didn’t
have enough food and feared being found
by soldiers.
“I have a different perspective than many
of my peers,” she says. “I know what living
on $1 a day looks like. Sometimes I can’t
believe where I am today. I have been
given the opportunity of a lifetime, so I
hope to accomplish great things in life.”
Damé is already doing great things. Her
academic ability and financial need have
earned her several scholarships, including
the U of M McGuire scholarship and the
CBS Dagley scholarship, named for former Biochemistry Department Head Stanley Dagley, who in the 1980s pioneered
the use of microorganisms to degrade
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Damé was five years old when this photo
was taken in Ethiopia.
toxic chemicals in the environment.
Scholarships have allowed Damé to
focus on her studies and do research on
cancer vaccines with Professor Robert
Fleischman. They have also made it possible for her to give back. She and a friend,
Thuy Nguyen-Tran, who graduated in
May, founded Circle of Giving to express
their gratitude for the educational support
they received by educating other students
about health disparities and inspiring them
to become involved. Thuy, whose parents
fled Vietnam, is now attending the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Their efforts have included lecture series
about health needs within Hmong, Somali,
Native American and Latino communities in Minnesota. Students from colleges
throughout the University have attended
the lectures.
“Minnesota has a long history of immigrants coming from all over the world.
It’s important for students to learn about
these communities in order to serve them
better. By educating my peers and encouraging them to join me in advocating
for the underserved, I can have a greater
impact in this world,” she says.
Circle of Giving members have also
raised funds for the Phillips Neighborhood
Clinic, worked at homeless shelters, and
led a campaign to encourage non-Caucasian students to register as bone marrow
donors.
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“Damé has a profound appreciation for her opportunities
and a mature sense of purpose,” says Robin Wright, CBS
associate dean. “She’s very bright and gracious, with the
ability to lead by gentle persuasion and careful listening.
A real team-player.”
“Patients with non-Caucasian heritage
often die waiting for bone marrow donors,”
she says.
This spring Damé and Thuy received the
President’s Student Leadership and SerDamé received the CBS Stanley Dagley
scholarship. Dagley, a biochemistry professor, was a founding member of the college.
vice Award and two Tony Diggs Excellence
awards for Circle of Giving. Diggs, who
died in 2006, was director of the Student
Activities Office for 16 years. The awards
recognize activities of student groups.
Next May, Damé will be the last of four
Idossa sisters to graduate from college.
Damé hopes to attend medical school
next year. An older sister, who graduated
from the University last year, is earning a
graduate degree in public health at Columbia University.
Damé credits her motivation to make a
difference to her parents.
“They have sacrificed so much to give
us opportunities. I want to aim high so
their sacrifices won’t be in vain.”
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A Cheerleader for Biology
Ecology professor Mark Bee says Betsy Linehan-Skillings’
cheerful attitude elevates the entire atmosphere of the lab. After graduate
school, she plans to share her enthusiasm for biology as a teacher.
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waders and headlamps to spend evenings
(9 p.m. to 2 a.m.) chasing frogs in several
designated lakes west of the Twin Cities.
Some of the male frogs croak all the
way back to the St. Paul campus, she
says. The length and time a male croaks
and the robustness of his sound are signs
Bee studies how female frogs select mates
from a chorus of croaking males, which could
be applied to improve hearing aids.
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lthough Betsy Linehan-Skillings
helped collect 900 frogs this spring
and summer, she is happy to report she
didn’t have to dissect any of them.
“That’s the inevitable question when I tell
people what I do, but we just bring them
to the lab for testing and then take them
back home, usually the next day.”
This is her second summer working with
Mark Bee, associate professor of ecology,
evolution and behavior, who studies how
and why female frogs select mates from
a chorus of croaking males. His findings could lead to better hearing aids for
humans.
Although she never imagined chasing frogs at night as part of her college
education, a couple of years ago she
saw a Driven to Discover TV commercial
about Bee’s research and was intrigued.
The next summer she joined a group of
undergraduate assistants who donned hip
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of reproductive fitness, which attracts
females.
This summer, Betsy also conducted an
independent research project to study
which frequencies are most appealing to
females, so she spent more time in the lab
during the day than in the lakes at night.
A University Research Opportunities Program (UROP) grant supported her effort.
“It’s a good lab because you can start
early in college. The more you work, the
more responsibility and trust you earn. I’ve
made lots of friends there.”
“Betsy is a real delight to work with,”
Bee says. “On top of being very bright
and extremely friendly, she has an upbeat,
get-it-done attitude that is infectious. The
cheer she brings to the often difficult and
mundane tasks of day-to-day scientific
research really elevates the atmosphere of
the entire lab.”
During the school year, Betsy will con-
A scholarship from R&D Systems honoring employees Monica Tsang and James
Weatherbee is allowing Betsy to work in
Bee’s lab this year.
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tinue working in Mark Bee’s lab thanks to
the Monica Tsang and James Weatherbee
Merit Scholarship, which was established
by R&D Systems/Techne Corporation to
honor Tsang and Weatherbee, longtime
employees who both served as vice
presidents and founded the company’s
Biotechnology Division. Tsang retired in
2007 to care for her husband, who suffers
from a chronic illness.
Betsy, who is putting herself through
college, has written to the couple and
hopes to thank them in person soon.
“I am so grateful. Scholarships mean the
difference between working at a minimum wage job and working in a research
lab, which is such an important part of a
biology education.” Betsy also received a
four-year U of M Presidential Scholarship.
In addition to maintaining a 3.84 GPA
and working in a research lab, Betsy has
volunteered at the Children’s Museum of
Minnesota for the past three years and
is vice president of the U of M Japanese Club. She was also a member of
the 2010 Homecoming Court. After she
graduates, Betsy plans to enter a Ph.D.
program, hopefully at UC Berkeley, Stanford or UCLA, and ultimately teach biology
at a small college in Minnesota.
“I love research, but teaching is my passion,” she says.
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“Scholarships mean the difference between
working at a minimum wage job or in a
research lab, which is such an important part
of a biology education,” Betsy says.
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Crazy for Critters
Mitch Bellrichard has been fascinated by animals since he was a kid. When he
decided to be a veterinarian, he knew it wouldn’t be easy. But with a 3.95 GPA, he’s on his way.
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hen Mitch Bellrichard returned to
campus for his senior year this fall,
he brought his cat, an African clawed frog
and a hedgehog with him. At one point he
had four hedgehogs, but fortunately found
homes for three of them.
“My girlfriend gave me a hedgehog for
my birthday. It turned out to be pregnant
and delivered a litter the next day.”
An animal lover from childhood, Mitch
has known for a long time that he wants
to be a veterinarian.
While most future vets major in animal
science, Mitch wanted a stronger grounding in basic science because he’s considering a research career. So he chose
the College of Biological Sciences and a
major in ecology, evolution and behavior.
He’s been very happy with CBS because
the sense of community “makes the U feel
smaller” and because the new Foundations in Biology course, where students
work as teams to solve biology problems,
provided such a strong grounding for the
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rest of his coursework.
“Taking Foundations of Biology made
my advanced biology courses much
easier,” he says.
Mitch applied for the Denneth “Denny”
and Joan Dvergsten Itasca Summer
Scholarship because he wanted to do
field research with animals at Itasca. His
3.95 GPA and experience working at the
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“The sense of community within CBS makes
the University of Minnesota feel smaller and
the curriculum provides a strong foundation
in basic science,” Mitch says.
group of Cedar Creek engineers and biologists founded Advanced Telemetry Systems, which provides electronic systems
Mitch used a Dvergsten scholarship to study
animal radio-tracking at Itasca with Larry Kuechle, who pioneered the technology at CBS in
the 1960s.
to track fish and wildlife worldwide. He
continues to work for the company, which
doubled in size a few years ago.
“When I think of Mitch as a person and
as a student, I see someone who is well
rounded. He has the academic skills to
succeed, clear goals for the future and the
interpersonal skills to apply his talents in a
work environment,” Kuechle says.
Now a senior, Mitch hopes to attend the
U of M College of Veterinary Medicine next
year. Comparative research involving animal and human medicine is one direction
he’s considering. He also enjoys caring
for exotic zoo animals and companion
animals.
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Denny Dvergsten (Ph.D. Education, ’71) and
his wife, Joan, endowed two scholarships at
Itasca, where he studied in the 1950s.
Oxbow Park Zoo, where he cared for a sick
porcupine and packed a rattlesnake up for
a trip to the hospital, made him an outstanding candidate.
Denny, who received his M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Minnesota,
was a distinguished science teacher in the
Roseville school district for many years. He
was also president of the Minnesota Science Teachers Association and a Minnesota
Teacher of the Year. From 1986 until his
retirement in 1991, Denny served as director of outreach for the College of Biological
Sciences. Joan received a degree in education from Mankato State University.
This summer at Itasca, Mitch studied animal behavior and learned about radio-tracking from Larry Kuechle, an adjunct faculty
member who pioneered radio-tracking at
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
in the 1960s. Under Kuechle’s guidance he
conducted research comparing the home
ranges of female and male raccoons living
in the park. In 1981, Kuechle and a core
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From Dishwasher to Doctor
Becca McDougle doesn’t have a problem starting at
the bottom. She took a dishwashing job in the biochemistry
department just to find the right mentor for a medical research career.
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my way through college, it’s hard to find
enough time for research. That’s why this
scholarship means so much to me.”
When Becca received the award at the
annual department banquet, she was
gratified that several former professors
remembered and congratulated her. That
may not be too surprising considering her
GPA is 3.95.
“Becca is pretty much a model citizen,”
Reuben Harris, associate professor of biochemistry and Becca’s advisor, studies molecular strategies to block HIV.
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ecca McDougle knew finding a research mentor would be an important
first step in her career, so she took a job
washing glassware for the Department
of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and
Biophysics to get to know faculty in the
department, where her major is based.
She was intrigued by the work of Professor Reuben Harris, one of the department’s most accomplished researchers.
He studies how a group of human proteins
(APOBEC) trigger beneficial mutations that
help people resist HIV and other diseases.
Harris welcomed her into his lab. The
Richard C. Nelson Scholarship made it
possible for her to spend the entire summer studying regulation of the APOBEC
proteins and their role in our innate immune response.
“Doing real research in a lab with a scientist like Dr. Harris is the most rewarding
part of my education at the University,”
Becca says. “But since I am working
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Harris says. “Very clever, and no matter
what the job she rolls up her sleeves and
gets it done. On top of that, she’s very
nice.”
Nelson, who earned a B.S. at the University of Minnesota in 1934 and a Ph.D.
in biochemistry in 1937, was a biochemistry professor at Northwestern and Ohio
State universities and had a long relationship with 3M. His daughter, Sara Nelson
Cooke, and son, Daniel Nelson, created
the scholarship to honor his memory
and support high-achieving biochemistry
students.
Becca also received a four-year U of
M Presidential Scholarship and the CBS
Harold Paul Morris Scholarship for her first
two years. Morris, who earned a B.S. in
1925 and a Ph.D. in 1930, had a distinguished career with the USDA, the FDA
and the National Cancer Institute. His son,
Emory Morris, established the scholarship
to honor his father.
Becca received a scholarship honoring
alumnus Richard C. Nelson (Ph.D. Biochemistry, ’34) pictured here in 1986 with
his wife, Margaret.
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“Becca is pretty much a model citizen,”
Harris says. “Very clever, and no matter
what the job she rolls up her sleeves and
gets it done. On top of that, she’s very nice.”
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As a senior this year, she will continue in
Harris’s lab. And in the fall, she will begin
applying for M.D./Ph.D programs. While
she enjoys research, she also wants to
be a physician and interact with patients,
possibly in the pediatrics unit of a research
hospital. This will require three years of
graduate school and four years of medical
school, plus residencies.
“I know those extra years will be difficult,
but they will enable me to do both the
things I’m passionate about, research and
patient care.”
In spite of her busy schedule, Becca
makes time for community service.
She volunteers on the pediatric floor at
Fairview University Medical Center. And
she’s active in Biology Without Borders
(a CBS student group that makes trips to
developing countries) as well as Compassionate Action for Animals, which focuses
on humane treatment of farm animals. She
also finds time for painting, her hobby.
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Have Scooter, Will Travel
Using a scooter to zip around campus is part of Jordan Wong’s time-management strategy, which
allows him to maintain a 3.87 GPA while playing in the U of M marching band and volunteering.
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ordan Wong got hooked on science
while playing video games when he
was a kid. One game, “Bioshock,” was
about a super hero stranded in an underwater city who altered his own genome
in order to shoot various powers, such as
electricity, from his hand. These powers helped him defeat his enemies and
escape the city…
“Bioshock” made Jordan curious about
altering cells and molecules to create new
powers.
Last year, he had a research experience in the laboratory of Daniel Bond,
a faculty member in the BioTechnology
Institute, which sounds equally fantastic.
Bond makes fuel cells using bacteria to
transform organic sludge into electricity.
Jordan conducted an independent project
in Bond’s lab experimenting with arabinose, a sugar, to increase the capacity of
bacteria to generate renewable energy.
It might make a good video game. But
who would believe it?
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Jordan did research in the laboratory of Daniel
Bond, who uses bacteria to convert organic
waste into electricity.
“Like so many of our students, Jordan
is bright and motivated,” says Genetics
Professor Mike Simmons, who nominated
Jordan for the Leon Snyder Scholarship.
“He never misses a class, thanks to a
dependable push scooter. He clearly appreciates that a university education is a
gift that can make each of us better than
we are.”
Jordan is a kind of student superhero.
With a 3.87 GPA, he finds time for the U
of M marching band (he plays the snare
drum) and volunteering as well as laboratory research. Marching band alone is a
minimum 11-hour-per-week commitment,
in addition to his practice time. When
there’s an afternoon game on Saturday,
the drumline reports at 5 a.m. to rehearse.
Jordan has tutored Somali students all
through college. And he spent most of
this summer in Ghana as a Global Health
volunteer and in Taiwan as a volunteer
English teacher. (He speaks and writes
Chinese.)
“I think about time management a lot.
My Dad always told me, ‘There are only
24 hours in a day. You spend half of them
sleeping and eating. So you want to make
the rest of them count.’”
One of his time-management strategies
is using a scooter to get around campus.
It’s faster than walking and, unlike a bike,
he can fold it up and bring it into his classroom or lab.
Scholarships play a vital role in allowing
Jordan to do so much. He was awarded
the Leon Snyder Scholarship for the 20102011 academic year. The award will go
toward his tuition.
Genetics Professor Leon Snyder, who
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“We’re here to learn. You only get
one shot at college,” Jordan says.
did his undergraduate and graduate studies at UC Berkeley, joined the University of Minnesota faculty in the 1950s.
His research addressed basic genetic
mechanisms, especially mutation, in plants
and fruit flies. He taught rigorous genetics courses and co-authored a genetics
textbook. Snyder was a founding member
of the College of Biological Sciences. This
Jordan received the Leon Snyder Scholarship.
Snyder was a highly respected CBS geneticist.
scholarship was created when he died
in 1989 to support outstanding students
with an interest in genetics.
Jordan received the Biological Sciences Alumni Society award in 2009, and
also has won several scholarships from
the University of Minnesota and external
organizations.
Like lots of top CBS students, Jordan
makes sacrifices to meet his goals. He
doesn’t have much time for partying, but
he has a close circle of friends who share
his values.
“We’re here to learn. You only get one
shot at college,” he says.
A senior this year, he hopes to attend
the U of M School of Dentistry next year. If
he is successful, he plans to donate a portion of his time to provide dental services
for underserved communities in Minnesota and in developing countries such as
Ghana.
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MAKE A MEANINGFUL GIFT
Create your own legacy or honor someone else with an endowed scholarship
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ver the years you, our
alumni, donors and
friends, have risen to the
occasion when the College
of Biological Sciences really
needed your help.
The most recent example
is Itasca Biological Station
and Laboratories. We
asked you to help us raise
$1.7 million to pay the
college’s share of the $5
million needed to renovate
and update the campus.
(The rest will come from state bonds.) You responded with
$1.2 million in commitments. I can’t thank you enough for your
generosity.
Now, we need your help again. The undergraduate program at
the College of Biological Sciences just keeps getting better and
better. Over the past several years, we have added many new
programs to improve academics and the student experience.
This spring we got thumbs up from an external curriculum review team that included the editor of Science and past president
of the National Academy of Sciences. Shortly after, we received
a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
to provide hands-on research experience to every student who
takes a biology class at the University of Minnesota.
And we continue to get more selective. This fall we had 6,400
applicants for 400 places in the freshman class. The average
freshman graduated at the 94th percentile of his or her class
and earned a score of 30 on the ACT. But many of these bright,
motivated, talented students can’t afford college. The amount
of scholarship money we have to offer hasn’t kept pace with the
growing demand and isn’t competitive with many other schools
and colleges, both public and private.
I know many of you have contributed generously to scholarships, and I thank you. But I would like others to consider
endowing an undergraduate scholarship. The minimum amount
is $25,000. I know that sounds like a lot of money, but it’s much
easier than you think. We can structure it so you make payments
over several years. It’s a meaningful way to create a legacy for
you, a loved one or a favorite professor. Alumni in a variety of
financial circumstances have done this.
If that’s not within your reach, I encourage you to contribute
to an existing endowed scholarship. To read descriptions, go to
www.cbs.umn.edu/studentservices/ then click on Scholarships
and Aid. Or you can contribute to an annual fund.
Please know that whatever you can do, your gift will make a
difference. I want to work with you to help you make a gift that is
meaningful for you. I’m here to help you.
Laurie Hennen
Director of Development
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How to
make a gift:
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Contact Laurie Hennen at 612624-9460 or [email protected]
to discuss a gift.
Make out a check and send it
to the University of Minnesota
Foundation, 200 Oak Street
SE, Suite 500, Minneapolis, MN
55155-2010.
Make a donation online by going
to www.giving.umn.edu and
clicking on Giving Opportunities.
If you send a check to the Foundation or make a gift online, be
sure to note that your gift is for
College of Biological Sciences
scholarships. You may specify
the scholarship if you like.
ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
A LIVING MEMORY
Itasca connection leads to endowment for student field research
Thomson Soule wanted to keep his wife Janet Boe’s (M.S.
Botany, ’81) passion for the natural world alive after she died of
cancer at 55. So he created a scholarship to support students
engaged in field biology research at Itasca Biological Station and
Laboratories. Following are his own words about Boe and her
feeling for Itasca, edited from a longer letter to CBS.
Janet often inspired me and still does in many ways. I had to
do something to find ways to deal with her death, to somehow
make it right. I realized how important it was for me to honor Janet for who she was and what was important to her … to keep
her “alive” and present in my life … Setting up this endowment is
a good start, but I want to do more.
Janet was committed to raising awareness of the natural world
and its relevance and importance to our everyday lives. She was
at her best teaching others [about nature]. She was good at it
because the connections she made were tied to her intellect,
spirit, kindness, grace and the will in her heart.
The Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, and the surrounding Itasca State Park, were more than special to Janet and
me. You could say our life together began there. We both took
classes at the station, but there is much more to the story. Our
decision to be married in that special place was not
happenstance.
As a teenager, with her family and often by herself, Janet made
many visits to Itasca State Park, cross-country skiing, hiking, bird
watching, dining at Douglas Lodge, visiting the headwaters and,
of course, exploring the natural history of the area. Her visits
home from nursing school and college included visits to Itasca to
get reacquainted with the plants, flowers and birds, and to renew
her spirit. I can see her, lost in concentration, keying out a sedge
or an orchid, or gliding through tall red pines on her skis.
I have no doubt that her adventures in the park—its natural
wonders, solitude and beauty—awakened and nurtured her
curiosity and love of the natural world, and led to her decision to
become not just a botanist and a zoologist/ecologist but a consummate naturalist. I am equally sure that from the time she first
visited Itasca she made plans to return one day to study at the
biological station; a plan she would complete while in graduate
school at the University of Minnesota, returning twice as its nurse
and once as a student.
We returned to Itasca many times in all seasons for work,
wedding anniversaries, visits to the headwaters, snowshoe treks,
spring wildflower searches and events, or just to walk and soak
up the smells, sounds and silence, reconnecting with this special
place and each other.
Janet Boe, M.S. Botany, ’81
Janet Boe was born in Fosston, MN in 1952 and graduated from high school in Bemidji in 1970. She earned a B.S. in nursing in 1973 and worked as a nurse until 1989. Janet earned a B.S. in biology from the University
of North Dakota in 1977, an M.S. in botany from the University of Minnesota in 1981, and a Ph.D. in zoology from North Dakota State University in 1991. She began working for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in 1992 and became regional plant ecologist for northwestern Minnesota in 1998, continuing in that position until 2006. She died of breast cancer in 2007. Janet Boe and Thomson Soule were married in 1980.
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CBS Donor Honor Roll 2009-2010
The College of Biological Sciences gratefully acknowledges the following donors, who have generously provided support
for Itasca, Cedar Creek, scholarships and fellowships, research and a variety of initiatives. Every gift makes a difference.
$5,000 +
3M Company
3M Foundation, Inc.
Marcia F. Birney
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Douglas J. and Wendy Dayton
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Denneth and Joan L. Dvergsten M
Robert P. Elde
Alan R. Flory M
Charles M. Goethe* Estate
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Betty V. Koerner
Valerian B. Kuechle
Whitney and Betty MacMillan
Meadowood Foundation
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Darby and Geraldine Nelson
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Howard V. O’Connell, Jr. M
Thomas E. Oland
Venkateswarlu Pothapragada
Beverly A. Pratt*
Research & Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
Don Shelby
G. David and Catherine E. Tilman
Huber R. Warner
Lisa A. Weik M
WEM Foundation
$1,000 - $4,999
H. Brewster and Martha C. Atwater, Jr.
Carl V. Barnes
David A. Bernlohr
Michael Brand-Tkalinowski
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Jonathan L. Vennerstrom
Scott Q. Vidas M
William K. Voedisch M
Katie Vogt
Scott R. and Nancy Walcker M
James S. Walker and Randi Nordstrom M
Margaret M. Walker
Patricia M. Walsh
Bradley J. Ward
Kimberly K. Washburn
David A. Watkins
Mitchell R. Watson
Guang-Jong Jason Wei
George D. Weiblen
Jane I. Wenger M
Mark J. Wenner
Cindy Wery Boyer M
Deborah A. Whitcomb
Richard J. White
Susan L. Wichlacz M
Sue Wick
C. Robert Wikel
Wild Mountain Taylors Falls Recreation
Charlotte E. Wiley
Audrey K. Wiley M
Elizabeth J. Williams
Jeanette A. Wiltse M
Gary M. Wood M
Elizabeth A. Wroblewski
Lakshmi R. Yerragudi
Michelle A. Zarmbinski M
Jeannette M. Zinggeler Berg M
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Nonprofit Org.
U.S. Postage
PAID
Minneapolis, MN
Permit #155
123 Snyder Hall
1475 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108