Pacific’s Department of Chemistry beat its goal one year early to raise $500,000 to secure matching funding from the John Stauffer Charitable Trust. Work is underway now to raise another $500,000.
Thanks to donations from university alumni, friends and students who belong to the professional chemistry organization Alpha Chi Sigma, money was raised that will be matched, dollar for dollar, by the John Stauffer Charitable Trust for a total of $1 million. The money will pay for undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry research.
Already, five Pacific chemistry students have taken advantage of the $5,000 stipends to conduct research over the past two summers.
Chemistry student Brinnley Barthels describes the experience as a rare chance to do undergraduate research:
