Lawrence University has received an equipment grant valued at $76,000 from the Hewlett Packard University Equipment Grant program. Hewlett Packard will provide the college with a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GS/MSD) and NIST system, state-of-the art equipment that will support curriculum reforms in support of student laboratory projects that increasingly study natural products and environmental samples. Most science students do not have opportunities to use this kind of equipment until graduate school, but Lawrence undergraduates in Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Instrumental Analysis, and a new Environmental Chemistry course will benefit from its availability at Lawrence.
This is the college's first grant from the Hewlett Packard University Grants program and one of very few awarded to liberal arts colleges. According to Lawrence's Hewlett Packard-employee sponsor, Susan Cook, '76, only 24 percent of the proposals submitted in this round were successful. Cook, director of corporate marketing for the Hewlett Packard Company, played an essential role in the collegešs success with this proposal. She met with the companyšs grants coordinator on Lawrence's behalf, offered guidance, read drafts of proposals, and endorsed the proposal. Professor Jerry Lokensgard and Assistant Professor Karen Harpp originated the proposal.
The University Grants Program, the company says, exists to improve the quality of higher education by providing Hewlett Packard products to four-year colleges and universities in support of their instructional mission.
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