Michael Hooker Research Center

This new $38.6 million, 125,000 square-foot teaching and research building has transformed our School. It allows us to provide world-class instruction and unparalleled discovery on four floors. It houses laboratory researchers in nutrition, epidemiology, environmental sciences, and engineering investigating such issues as the relationship between nutrition and cancer and drinking water quality. Its soaring three-floor atrium provides a dramatic space where students, faculty, and staff gather informally all day long, and where formal, school-wide events take place. Giving opportunities include naming laboratories, conference rooms and faculty offices in the new building. Space Gift Atrium $2,000,000 Building Wing $1,500,000 Bio-Safety Level 3 Lab $250,000 Meeting Room $200,000 Science Suite $200,000 Research Lab $150,000 Instrument Lab $100,000 Reading Room $100,000 Conference Room $100,000 Faculty Office $25,000 Glass Panel $2,500   Michael Hooker Research Center Success Story: The Weiss-Kuenzler-Wetzel Environmental Sciences Laboratory Professors emeriti Charles and Shirley Weiss have devoted much of their lives to Carolina and believe deeply in their respective fields. Her discipline was urban planning while he pursued research in limnology – the study of lakes, rivers and streams. Joining the SPH faculty in 1956, Dr. Weiss was the first of three great limnologists in the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Department. He was followed by Edward Kuenzler and Robert Wetzel, whose work also had great impact on the field. With the generosity of the Weisses and their naming of the laboratory, the three limnologists’ names will be connected with the work conducted here far into the future. Step up to the challenge  We need your help raising the last $5 million. The Michael Hooker Research Center is bustling with activity – exciting discoveries, new interdisciplinary collaborations, and informal meetings to discuss public health projects. While the $38.6 million physical structure is complete with state-of-the-art research laboratories, conference rooms, and comfortable couch areas, a challenge remains. We need to raise $5 million more for the building in private gifts. Funding sources: 2000 State bond issue: $13.4 million University overhead: $15.2 million Private gifts: $10 million Amount remaining to reach building goal: $5 million You can help The new Michael Hooker Research center belongs to us all: students faculty, staff, alumni and supporters of the UNC School of Public Health. Possibilities range from naming an entire floor to etching a section of a glass panel with a name or message. Gifts of all sizes make an important difference! Other opportunities to make your mark at the UNC School of Public Health abound. Consider endowing a professorship, creating a student scholarship, or funding research at the School. We encourage you to make an impact – make a gift!   For more information about ways to give to the UNC School of Public Health, please contact: Peggy Dean Glenn Associate Dean for External Affairs School of Public Health The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus Box 7407 Chapel Hill, NC 27599 919.966.0198 peggy_glenn@unc.edu View the online Webcast of the Michael Hooker Research Center dedication celebration.

Last updated March 27, 2008