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CAMPAIGN IOWA STATE TOTALS
Fundraising to Date
Effective April 6, 2009
Total: $667.2 million
Goal: $800 million
FOUNDATION NEWS
Joining the Foundation:
Steve Biever, executive director of development, regional programs from American Cancer Society, Minneapolis
Paul Caspersen, executive director of development, gift planning from TIAA/CREF.
Lisa Fry, director of development, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from Wildwood Hills Ranch, St. Charles, Iowa
Ryan Harms, director of development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences from Kansas University Endowment Association
Jodi O’Donnell, associate director of development communications from St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
Leaving the Foundation:
Pat Vickerman, associate vice president of development to vice president of advancement, Bradley University
RECENT GIFTS
Gaya Amarsinghe, assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology
Olivia Madison, dean of the ISU Library
Iowa State University has received two grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, based in Muscatine, Iowa, to study the biochemical mechanism by which the Ebola virus evades the host immune response to infection, and also to establish an educational technology classroom within the Parks Library on campus.
Gaya Amarasinghe, assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, has been awarded over $100,000 to study viral proteins that facilitate immune evasion. In many cases, very limited information is available on key host-viral interactions that lead to infections and correspondly, fewer effective vaccines or approved treatments are available.
The Carver Trust has also committed almost $200,000 to the Iowa State University Library for a next generation technology-equipped multimedia classroom space. The facility will include instructional technologies supporting the library’s pedagogical strategies.
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust is a philanthropic foundation in Iowa with assets of more than $300 million and annual grant distributions of over $16 million. It was created through the will of Roy J. Carver, a Muscatine industrialist and philanthropist, who died in 1981.The Carver Trust has been a long-time supporter of Iowa State and is one of the university’s leading donors with a total giving of $24 million in gifts and grants.
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