Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility, which will expand Penn State’s biotechnology ecosystem.
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Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s $1.5 million donation creates cell culture facility at Penn State University
January 21, 2021 GMT
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. and GOETTINGEN, Germany, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a leading international partner of the biopharmaceutical industry, has committed $1.5 million to Penn State University to create the Sartorius Cell Culture Facility. It is slated to open in the first quarter of 2021 on the University Park campus.
“This donation from Sartorius is a tremendous investment in biotechnology at Penn State and a huge step forward in our organizations’ partnership,” said Lora G. Weis, senior vice president for research at Penn State. “Across our University’s $1 billion research enterprise, few areas have as much potential for widespread impact as biotechnology. Sartorius is helping to ensure that
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Penn State alumna Christie Tillapaugh made a gift to Penn State Law in University Park to create the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Interest Law Award.
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Alumna provides gift to create Public Interest Law Award
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Christie Tillapaugh earned her bachelor’s degree in international politics from Penn State, 1999 and her juris doctor from Dickinson School of Law, 2002, serves on the Penn State Law Board of Advisors and mentors law students including those pursuing public interest law. Her $25,000 gift will create an endowment known as the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Public Interest Law Award at Penn St
Penn State Hazleton receives $200k gift from foundation of former professor
Joe Dolinsky
January 14, 2021
HAZLETON, Pa. – The foundation of a former Penn State professor and Hazleton native has committed $200,000 to Penn State Hazleton.
The gift from the Eloise C. Snyder Foundation will be split evenly between the Dr. Eloise C. Snyder Scholarship, established to support full-time students with a financial need, and the Dr. Eloise C. Snyder Excellence Fund, which supports undergraduate students, faculty and programs on campus.
Snyder, who died in 2015, earned her master’s and doctorate degrees in sociology at Penn State. After teaching at universities in Illinois and South Carolina, she returned to the University in 1970 as an associate professor of sociology.
$2 million estate gift to create faculty chair in aerospace engineering
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$2 million estate gift to create faculty chair in aerospace engineering
Mariah Chuprinski
December 14, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Building community is important, according to Robert “Bob” Lengel, and it has to start with strong leadership. A 1968 Penn State graduate in aerospace engineering, Bob and his wife, Sandy, have recently committed approximately $2 million of their estate to build the engineering community and share Bob’s message of effective leadership and communication.