200K Grant bolsters biologists
Heather Orlando
Issue date: 11/8/07 Section: News
State of the art microscopes, an aquatic habitat system, 16 Macintosh computers, color printers and a plasma HDTV video monitor are on the biology department's shopping list three months after receiving a $266,516.38 educational grant from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation of Reno, Nev.
"The grant should help supply a lot of what we will need in the new Moss Science Wing," Biology Department Chairman Frank Steiner said.
The grant will give campus biologists access to a new autoclave, a machine that sterilizes objects using steam. The department's existing unit is 23 years old, Steiner said.
The department will also purchase centrifuge rotors, which harvest cells and prepare them for analysis, human physiology teaching kits, and new instruments to outfit new microbiology and cell biology labs. Coordinator for Proposals and Reports Sharon Pitts called the grant a "real blessing."
"This foundation also funded the Wiegand Computer Lab in 1992," Pitts said. "It assisted our computer program in 1986, and we are very pleased to receive this significant grant."
Pitts said this new development took care of "a major chunk" of the biology department's funding, though she could not state an exact percentage.
Biology major Erin Julianus, a senior, said she's looking forward to the new resources that the grant will provide.
"The new labs and equipment sound very impressive," Julianus said. "It should be a whole new world in the biology department next semester."
According to an informational brochure, the E.L. Wiegand Foundation was named for Edwin L. Wiegand, who developed and manufactured heating elements for home industrial uses that are still used in numerous electric appliances today.
Hillsdale College Collegian, 2007
"The grant should help supply a lot of what we will need in the new Moss Science Wing," Biology Department Chairman Frank Steiner said.
The grant will give campus biologists access to a new autoclave, a machine that sterilizes objects using steam. The department's existing unit is 23 years old, Steiner said.
The department will also purchase centrifuge rotors, which harvest cells and prepare them for analysis, human physiology teaching kits, and new instruments to outfit new microbiology and cell biology labs. Coordinator for Proposals and Reports Sharon Pitts called the grant a "real blessing."
"This foundation also funded the Wiegand Computer Lab in 1992," Pitts said. "It assisted our computer program in 1986, and we are very pleased to receive this significant grant."
Pitts said this new development took care of "a major chunk" of the biology department's funding, though she could not state an exact percentage.
Biology major Erin Julianus, a senior, said she's looking forward to the new resources that the grant will provide.
"The new labs and equipment sound very impressive," Julianus said. "It should be a whole new world in the biology department next semester."
According to an informational brochure, the E.L. Wiegand Foundation was named for Edwin L. Wiegand, who developed and manufactured heating elements for home industrial uses that are still used in numerous electric appliances today.
Hillsdale College Collegian, 2007
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