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Development Report 2013-14
By Calvin D. Husmann
Vice President for Alumni, Development and Communications
Gift income from private sources1 totaled $17.68 million, a 58.9 percent increase from last fiscal year's $11.1 million. Gifts from alumni were up 125.6% and gifts from parents were down 17% from last fiscal year. Gifts received from friends are up 17.9% with $490,619 received this fiscal year versus $415,998 last fiscal year. Another aspect of giving—bequest income—was down over last year at $865, 634 versus $2.56 million. Membership in the Lawrence-Downer Legacy Circle grew to 917 living members from 852 in fiscal 2013. Gifts from corporations were up 265.7% at $398,248 versus $108,898 last fiscal year. Foundation giving was about even with last year's total at $1,091,915.
Founders Club membership was up for fiscal 2014 with 768 members versus 724 last year (the record is 773 members set in fiscal 2008). Founders Club members contributed $2.57 million or 69.4 percent of Lawrence Fund gifts versus $2.25 million or 66.5 percent of Lawrence Fund gifts in fiscal 2013.
Support for Björklunden via the Boynton Society for operating gifts was up this year—$217,156 compared to last year's $206,875.
In fiscal 2014, Lawrence Reunion classes, which includes the Milestone, Cluster and 55th Reunions this year, contributed $540,429 or 14.6 percent of all gifts to the Lawrence Fund. When including gifts, multi-year pledges, restricted gifts, and planned gifts (for the 50th Reunion), the Classes of 1959, 1964, 1974, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2010 collectively committed over $10.1 million.
The alumni donor participation rate dropped this year to 35.8% from 37.5% and the number of alumni donors declined to 5,093 from 5,292 last year and 5,377 in fiscal 2012. We again conducted a "renewal" mailing this fiscal year. As of June 30, we have received 108 replies from the two mailings and raised $42,655. We also mailed anniversary cards to both prospects and non-prospects this year which continues to have one of our highest response rates (average of 13.3%), bringing in $42,741.
Lawrence's overall alumni renewal rate has remained very consistent, and is something we are extremely proud of. The Annual Giving office has been keeping a historical record of the alumni renewal rate:
Overall alumni renewal rate*
*Dan Allenby, who currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Annual Giving at Boston University and is on the faculty for CASE's Summer Institute and past chair of its Conference for Senior Annual Giving Professionals, provides grading scores for retention rates. A retention rate over 75% receives an "A." Over the past two decades, Dan Allenby has worked, written, and spoken on the subject of Annual Giving and founded The Annual Giving Network, a group in LinkedIn where thousands of fundraisers exchange ideas and share best practices.
+ Endowment and Physical Plant
Gifts to the endowment totaled $9.83 million, an increase from the $3.39 million received last year. Within the $1,010,705 million plant gifts, $523,653 was received for the Banta Athletics Renovation, $1,800 for the Hawthornden Bricks Fund, $252 for In-Kind Gifts, $285,000 for the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, and $200,000 for the Tennis Facilities Improvements.
1Although the figures here presented are in compliance with standards adopted by CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) and NACUBO (National Association of College Business Officers), they differ from the presentation of gift income on the college's financial statements. This report includes both gifts and payments on pledges received during 2013-14 but excludes new pledges received during the fiscal year. Financial statement gift income, on the other hand, augments these numbers by the value of new pledges received during the year and reduces them by the value of payments made on pledges received in the prior fiscal year.


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Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of nanometer scale metallic features on silicon surfaces (2011-05-25)Nanometer scale metals are of great interest due to their potential applications in the future of molecular/atomic scale devices. For example, nanometer scale metal contacts on semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes ...
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(2017-06-26)This dissertation demonstrates the dry contact transfer of atomically precise graphene nanoribbons onto H:Si(100) under ultra-high vacuum, detailed electronic characterization, and electron-mediated polymerization of ...
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Cluster Diffusion in a Highly Mismatched System: Copper on Silver(111) (2011-01-14)I have used low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate cluster diffusion phenomena in both the early stages of nucleation and growth and the late stages for a highly mismatched system, Cu on Ag(111). In ...
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Cluster Diffusion in a Highly Mismatched system:Copper on Silver(111) (2010)I have used low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate cluster diffusion phenomena in both the early stages of nucleation and growth and the late stages for a highly mismatched system, Cu on Ag(111). In ...
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(1999)Computer simulations are presented which address four key topics in materials design. First, a genetic algorithm is described that is able to find the global free energy minimum conformation of tricosane. Results from the ...
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(2015-06-19)The pyroelectric and electrocaloric effect play an important role in many applications such as energy harvesting and solid-state cooling. This dissertation focuses on the characterization of the pyroelectric and electric ...
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(2015-06-30)The theme of this thesis concerns the fundamental questions in soft matter, in particular, the dynamics of vesicle membranes, interfacial polymers, colloidal particles. Optical imaging was applied three distinct systems ...
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(2005)Anionic DNA and cationic lipsomes can self-assemble into a multi-lamellar structure where two-dimensional (2-D) lipid sheets confine a periodic one-dimensional (1-D) lattice of parallel DNA chains, between which Cd2+ ions ...
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(2001)This work involved the study of biodegradable and biocompatible materials that have the potential to modify tissue engineering scaffolds through self assembly, generating multiple layers that deliver bioactivity. Diblock ...
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(2001)A new class of self assembling rodcoil molecules was recently synthesized and their solid state structure was rigorously characterized. These molecules have a triblock architecture with a rigid rod molecular compound coupled ...
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(2013-05-24)Microvascular networks are pervasive in biological systems, assisting in the repair of tissue damage, regulation of temperature, and efficient distribution of nutrients. Emulating these functional attributes in engineering ...
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(2015-04-21)Thermal-mechanical failure of microelectronic devices often involves in the loss of conductivity of the metal traces and vias, which shortens the lifetime and requires replacement of the entire unit. High-capacity Si ...
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(2013-05-24)The stability of materials subjected to prolonged irradiation has been a topic of renewed interest in recent years due to the projected growth of nuclear power as an alternative energy source. The irradiating particles ...
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(2008)The phase stability of materials under irradiation has been a subject of renewed interest in recent years due to the increased demands that next generation nuclear power sources will place on the performance of materials. ...
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(2011-08-25)Fiber reinforced composite tanks provide a promising method of storage for liquid oxygen and hydrogen for aerospace applications. The inherent thermal fatigue of these vessels leads to the formation of microcracks, which ...
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(2015-01-21)Severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques such as equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), high pressure torsion (HPT), high energy ball milling (BM), accumulative roll bonding (ARB), are well known to refine the microstructures ...
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(2014-05-30)Metals and alloys processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques are gaining widespread interest for applications where bulk nanostructured materials are desired. This dissertation research focuses on understanding ...
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(1992)Ultrathin ($$10$\sp4$ Pa), probably due to interactions with flaws in the monolayers. Dramatic signs of wall slip were observed at large strains even at low pressures.
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(1994)The aim of this work was to design experiments that could probe the motion of the polymer chains at the molecular level, and thereby suggest the mechanism of polymer-polymer interdiffusion. In the first experiment, a thin ...
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Silicon (011) and Silicon Germanium (011) Gas-Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Surface Reconstructions, Growth Kinetics, and Germanium Segregation (2000)Ge surface segregation occurs during Si1--xGex(011) GS-MBE. Ge surface coverages thetaGe increase with x, ranging from 0.27 to 0.74 ML for x = 0.04--0.20. At a given film composition, theta Ge decreases with decreasing Ts ...
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Following reconsideration of the current NCD for colorectal cancer screening, CMS says it will not expand the colorectal cancer screening benefit to include coverage of PreGen-Plus, a commercially available screening DNA stool test. CMS says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined this test requires premarket review and approval. CMS says a subsequent request for reconsideration will be considered once FDA approval is obtained. You can read all about this NCD in CMS Transmittal 89, and in the MLN Matters article MM6145.
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