18 ON THE EDGE OF DISCOVERY Making smart investments to distinguish Lehigh as a top-tier research institution was a critical component of GO. So far, six endowed chairs have been added. Thanks to such generous and forward-looking support from donors, our research horizons and potential are broader than ever. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GO? WE FUEL RESEARCH. Banks Chair Sam Banks ’63 thought so much of his Lehigh experience and engineering education that he made a generous $3.5 million bequest — a future gift from his estate — to endow a chair in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. The gift includes $2.5 million for the endowed chair and $1 million for faculty startup and related research costs for the chairholder. A named, endowed chair is one of the highest academic awards that a university can bestow on a faculty member and serves as an important recruiting tool. The Sam Banks ’63 Endowed Faculty Chair will help attract the best faculty and support Lehigh’s mission to increase the quality and rankings of the university. Zisman Chair Mike Zisman ’70 and his wife, Linda Gamble, recently made a $2.5 million gift to endow a faculty chair in honor of Professor William L. Luyben, Zisman’s chemical and biomolecular engineering professor and a Lehigh faculty member since 1967. Professor William L. Luyben and Mike Zisman ’70 The chair will initially be called the Zisman Family Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Upon Professor Luyben’s future retirement from Lehigh, it will be known as the William L. Luyben Chair, with the chairholder embodying the qualities of Professor Luyben as “an exemplary teacher, mentor, and distinguished researcher.” Forlenza Chair The search is underway for a leader to launch the new College of Health’s Department of Health Innovation and Technology, with the help of a foundational $5 million gift from Ellen and Vincent Forlenza ’75 for an endowed chair. The Ellen and Vincent Forlenza ’75 Chair in Health Innovation and Technology Endowed Fund invests in that college’s future — and in seeking solutions for health care issues that affect populations around the country and the world — and will help fulfill the college’s mission to prioritize recruitment of the very best talent in a fiercely competitive market. The chairholder will support the innovation and development of health applications for artificial intelligence, advance analytics and data science, and design cuttingedge devices and technologies to address urgent needs in population health. The Forlenzas believe in the college’s mission to educate population health leaders who will have an impact on the community, nation, and world.
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