• The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc.
• Robert A. and Susan Wilson
• The Plough Foundation
• The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation of Memphis
• The Van Vleet Foundation
• Dr. R. Wayne and Bettie Speer
• The Thomas W. Briggs Foundation, Inc.
• Cole-Parmer Instrument Company
• George I. Alden Trust
• Buckeye Technologies
• Saint Francis Hospital

The picture above is of the Scanning Electron Microscope donated by Buckeye Technologies.

Below is a list of recent donations that have made a big difference in the quality of our equipment and facilities:

• Spring, 2007: Robert and Susan Wilson and the Assisi Foundation have made significant donations to go along with the Plough Foundation (see item below) and an anonymous major donor so that we have begun the construction of the Cooper-Wilson Center for Life Sciences buidling and the the major renovation of our present Science building.
• Fall, 2006: The Plough Foundation has awarded CBU a $2.5 million grant to expand the University's science facilities.
• Spring, 2006: The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation of Memphis will provide a $250,000 scholarship fund for juniors and seniors majoring in the sciences.
• For the seventh year (2007) in a row, CBU is participating in a National Institute of Health - Minority International Research Training grant.
• The Assisi Foundation has awarded CBU a grant for $3 million dollars for a three year project starting in 2003. Of this amount, about $650,000 is for chemistry equipment and the renovation of some chemistry labs. The chemistry equipment includes a new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) instrument!


• Thanks to an endowed fund from the Shaping Sciences Project, this summer and for the summers to come, we have faculty working to improve the labs, lectures, and web pages in the school.
• Spring, Summer and Fall 2000: Thanks to the third major grant in our Shaping Sciences project from the Assisi Foundation, we bought more biology laboratory equipment for use in our biology lab courses. This includes a new scanning electron microscope.
• Summer 2000: We had 15 of our science faculty members working on course development projects thanks in large part to a grant from the Thomas Briggs Foundation.
• Spring, Summer and Fall '99: Thanks to the second major grant in our Shaping Sciences project from the Assisi Foundation, we bought more biology laboratory equipment for use in Microbiology, Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Vertebrate Physiology.
• Summer '99: We added multimedia capabilities to four biology labs and two classrooms (S214 and S112) this summer thanks to a second major grant in our Shaping Sciences project from the Assisi Foundation. This makes all six classrooms in the Science Building fully multimedia capable.
• Summer '99: We had 16 of our science faculty members working on course development projects thanks in large part to a grant from the Thomas Briggs Foundation.
• Fall '98 and Spring '99: We significantly upgraded the equipment in our neuroscience laboratory thanks to an NSF DUE grant. In addition, we received some valuable equipment from St. Francis Hospital that supports our electron microscope and our Cell/Molecular Biology lab.