CALS Annual Fund
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences relies greatly upon the generosity of alumni and friends, and gifts of all sizes are important to providing critical budget and program support. Dean Henry has set a bold new goal for the 2008-2009 CALS Annual Fund—our rst year for a goal of $1 million! Join us in showing your support for faculty, students, and programs.
Give now!

Connect with a Smart Board
Purchase an interactive smart board, a portable device that attaches to a standard dry-erase board and turns it into a copy board with computer connectivity. Data, notes, or drawings can be written on the whiteboard and then saved, printed, emailed, or faxed from the computer.
$950 (Food Science)

How Old Is that Tree?
Purchase an increment borer, an instrument used in forest science to extract tree cores for measurements of tree age and growth. Borers are used regularly for class field trips and for individual and independent student projects.
$600 (Natural Resources)

Clean, Pure Water
Help develop ways to protect water quality and teach the next generation of professionals working for this protection by funding geographic information systems (GIS) and computational facilities.
$18,000 (Biological and Environmental Engineering)

It Does Compute
Purchase a new computer for the department’s graduate student computer lab.
$1,200 (Applied Economics and Management)

Laptops Lacking
Provide laptops for eight undergraduate honors research students.
$8,000 (Communication)

Earn Bragging Rights
Send an award-winning team of students to compete for a national title for the best new food product in the U.S. at the annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists.
$9,000 (Food Science)

Neighborhood Nature
Fund a summer undergraduate or graduate student to investigate how neighborhood nature initiatives in cities—from watershed alliances to community gardens—are impacting communities and the environment.
$3,500 (Natural Resources)

Save the Vertebrates
Help save the irreplaceable mounted birds and mammals used for teaching vertebrate biology in Stimson Hall. Purchase a display case and fund a conservator’s work on its specimens.
$5,500 (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

A ‘Mean’ Request
Purchase statistical software for graduate students who are researching economic issues related to agriculture, the environment, and international development.
$500 (Applied Economics and Management)

Friends of Fall Creek
Support a new student organization committed to balancing student safety with recreational access in the campus gorges.
$5,000 (Natural Resources)

Insects, Insects Everywhere
Support Insectapalooza 2010, the Department of Entomology’s open house, which attracts as many as 3,000 visitors each year.
$5,000 (Entomology)

Books for Minority Scholar
Provide a book award for a historically underrepresented minority student in the Biology Scholars Program.
$500 (Biology)

Send a Student Overseas
Support an Agricultural Sciences undergraduate to experience an international agricultural.
$2,000 (Crop and Soil Sciences)

Psyched About Food
Sponsor two full-year undergraduate research projects for the Food and Brand Lab.
$23,000 (Applied Economics and Management)

Have a Seat
Purchase 30 classroom chairs for a new teaching laboratory in Kennedy Hall.
$3,500 (Landscape Architecture)

I Can See Clearly Now
Provide 10 laptops for a new "virtual drawing board," a large vertical flat-screen computer on which students can load drawings and electronically edit them.
$18,000 (Landscape Architecture)