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Wall Fund
In September 1999, Tulane University announced the receipt of an $18 million
unrestricted bequest from the estate of Lallage Feazel Wall of Monroe,
Louisiana. The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund voted to
allocate approximately $6 million of this bequest to fund initiatives
related to the university's strategic plan, "Creating Tulane's Future:
A truly distinctive university in America's most original city."
Approximately $5.6
million dollars were awarded in five rounds of funding to 21 projects
focused on Education and Research, People, Community, and Resources and
Leadership. The remaining Wall Funds have been dedicated to support general
university-wide strategic plan projects.
Funded Projects,
Rounds 1-5
People
- Creation of a
Start-Up and Cost Sharing Fund, $600,000 over three years
- Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, $500,000 in matching funds
to establish an endowment
- Achieving Information
Literacy: Freshman Writing and Staff Development, $52,550 over two years
Education
- Collaborative
Efforts between the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, $474,000 over three
years
- Living Learning
Communities, $250,000 over three years
- Center for Ethics
and Public Affairs, $300,000 over three years
- Executive Masters
Degree in Clinical Research Program, $100,000 one-time award
- Enhancements to
Neurosciences Undergraduate Education, $200,000 over three years
- The Urban School
(formerly College of Human and Urban Ecology), up to a total award of
$489,806 over three years
Research
- Renal and Hypertension
Center of Excellence, $50,000 planning grant
- Neuroscience Center,
$150,000 planning grant
- Development of
a State-of-the-Art Transgenic/Knockout Mouse Facility in the Uptown
Vivarium, $365,000 over three years
- Tulane Structural
Proteomics Initiative, $200,000 over three years
- Center for Computational
Science, $150,000 over three years
- Establishment of
an Institute for Chemical Sciences at Tulane University, $100,000 over
three years
- Tulane Center
for River-Ocean Studies, $250,000 over two years
- Upgrade and Construction
of Biosafety Level-3 Facilities, $500,000 one time award
- Tulane Center
of Excellence in Bioengineering, $250,000 over two years
Community
- National Endowment
for the Humanities Regional Humanities Center for the Deep South, $200,000
over three years
Resources and Leadership
- Creation of a
Technology Innovation Gap Fund, $300,000 over three years
- Tulane University
PilotGrid, $85,000 one-time award
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