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Giving - Chemical Engineering Department
The Department has 18 faculty members engaged in graduate
teaching and research. Their interests span a wide range of topics including
thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, biochemical and biomedical
engineering, interfacial and surface phenomena, process control, kinetics and
reaction engineering, pollution, transport phenomena, applied mathematics, space
processing, polymeric materials, rheology and pulp characterization. This
diversity of interests is reflected in the large number of graduate courses
available, allowing the student an excellent opportunity to obtain a broad
background in chemical engineering.
The ongoing operation of the department would not
be possible without the support of private gifts from alumni, friends and
corporations. Investments made in
scholarships and fellowships, professorships, research, academic and
athletic programs, and facilities are essential to the
department and
rewarding to the donor.
There are 3 main giving options:
By Personal Check:
Please make checks payable to "University of Florida Foundation " and mail your
checks to the following address:
Chemical Engineering Department
c/o Janice Harris
P. O. Box 116005
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6005 USA
Donate On-Line by Credit Card:
Go to the
On-Line Giving Form and select 'Chemical Engineering' from the
pulldown menu. You will be able to pay by credit card on the 'Gift
Completion' page.
Dr. Shah Challenge
Professor Dinesh Shah has offered the University of Florida a challenge gift
of $200,000 to establish an endowed professorship, a Chair in Surface Science in
the Chemical Engineering department. Shah, who will retire in 2005, is the
director of the Center for Surface Science and Engineering in the College of
Engineering.
Shah is encouraging matching corporate and alumni donations of $400,000 to help
fund the chair. The State of Florida can then offer an additional $400,000 in
matching funds, for a total of one million dollars to support the chair.
The donation from Shah caps a distinguished 35-year academic and humanitarian
career. Shah came to UF in 1970. He served as chairman of the Chemical
Engineering department from 1987 to 1991 and was appointed as the first Charles
A. Stokes Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1996. In 1990, he organized the
International Symposium on Surfactants in Solutions, which meets every five
years and has brought scientists from all around the world to UF. In 1992, he
was named the Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Member and served as the
Grand Marshal of the homecoming parade that year.
Shah is well known for his charitable work, especially on behalf of the
community of Indian students in Gainesville. In 1991, he began a
one-million-dollar fundraising effort to build the India Cultural and Education
Center, which was opened in 1998.
In 2000, Shah lost his wife, Suvarna, who also had an honored place in
Gainesville's Indian community. A scholarship fund was established that year in
her name.
Shah hopes that the creation of the endowed professorship in his name will
further establish UF as a world-class teaching and research facility in surface
science, and, as he says, "will allow me to leave my invisible fingerprints on
the university that I love so dearly."
- Give to the Shah Challenge by Check
Make checks
payable to "University of Florida Foundation" and mail your checks to the
following address:
College of Engineering
c/o Edward Kominowski
Office of Development 330 Weil Hall
PO Box 116575
Gainesville, 32611
Add to Memo Field: Shah Challenge ChE Department
- Give to the Shah Challenge by Credit Card
Go to the
On-Line Giving Form and select 'Chemical Engineering' from the
pulldown menu. You will be able to pay by credit card on the 'Gift
Completion' page. Be sure to enter 'Shah
Challenge' in the 'Additional Comments' field.
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