A listing of grants of at least $10,000 received by CASE V institutions. Send items for Brief CASE to: advance@uwlax.edu.

Baldwin-Wallace (Berea, Ohio), a $7 million bequest of the late Arthur and Helen Telfer of Opopka, Fla., to help fund a $27 million expansion of new facilities for science and innovation.
    
Benedictine University (Lisle, Ill.), $74,599 from the National Science Foundation to continue study of high temperature and supercritical water. Basingers invest in hometown; $1 million estate to Bluffton University and Mennonite Home Communities
Bluffton (Ohio) University, $1 million from the estate of James and Frieda Basinger to provide enhanced support for student scholarships.

Bradley University (Peoria, Ill.), $1 million from Peoria businessman Dale Burklund for the Campaign for a Bradley Renaissance.

DePaul University (Chicago) $2 million from Trustee Douglas Crocker II and his wife, Cynthia, to endow scholarships for undergraduates--the largest single gift DePaul has received for scholarship support in its 112-year history. Also, a $1 million charitable remainder unitrust from Barbara L. Laughlin, retired CIO of First Union Corp., to fund scholarships for women studying business; $475,000 from The MacArthur Foundation to create the infrastructure for a Chicago Learning Network; $350,000 from the Chicago Department of Family and Support Services to deliver professional development for Head Start personnel; and $36,000 from The Institute of Internal Auditors: The Institute of Internal Auditors to develop an internal auditing education program.

Franklin (Ind.) College, $500,000 from the Elba L. and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation for a construction project to reconfigure the existing football field into a multipurpose athletic field. The area will be renamed the Elba L. and Gene Portteus Branigin Athletic Field.

Indiana State University (Terre Haute, Ind.), $1 million from the Bernard Osher Foundation to provide ongoing educational opportunities for the Wabash Valley’s lifelong learners.

Kettering University (Flint, Mich.), $1.2 million from the estate of Earl and Lanice Riopelle of Fort Worth, Texas, to support post-baccalaureate course offerings to better prepare engineers for seeking corporate management roles.

Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), $1.7 million from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to investigate the effects of chemicals found in marijuana related to the development of psychiatric disorders. Also, $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute to investigate a group of proteins involved in the development of lung cancer; $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to investigate the role of astrocytes, a type of brain cell, in regulating blood flow in the brain; $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to continue study of a rare but potentially fatal heart and lung condition of newborns; $828,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to develop a urine test that may predict kidney stone formation; $700,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse to study chronic pain and possible new treatments; and $180,000 from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to research how the brain helps maintain a healthy exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide..
Ohio Wesleyan (Delaware, Ohio), $250,000 from fiends and family of graduate Payson Corbiere, ’96, to honor his memory by naming the lobby of the new Meek Aquatics and Recreation Center.

Saint Meinrad (Ind.) Seminary and School of Theology, $895,000 from Lilly Endowment Inc. of Indianapolis for supplemental support of the “One Bread, One Cup” youth liturgical leadership program.

St. Cloud (Minn.) State University, $145,933 from the Charles and Ellora Alliss Educational Foundation to fund scholarships for more than 300 undergraduate students.

St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), $5 million from Board of Regents Chair O. Jay Tomson '58 and his wife, Patricia McCarthy Tomson '59, to renovate St. Olaf's old science building.

Trine University (Angola, Ind.) $1 million from Tri-State University alumnus and Trine University trustee James D. Bock and his wife, Joan, to fund remodeling of a building to launch an intended new Trine master of biomedical engineering degree. Also, $600,000 from Steel Dynamics Foundation for the university’s new field house with indoor track, which will be named Keith E. Busse/Steel Dynamics Athletic and Recreation Center.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, $524,145 from the National Science Foundation to purchase a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Both produce images at nanoscale resolution and open the door to unique research on and off campus.

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine (Dayton, Ohio), $4.35 million from Premier Health Partners for the Neuroscience Institute to speed the transfer of research discoveries from bench to bedside, improving the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders such as stroke.
 

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