Giving to Biochemistry

Support for the Biochemistry Department can make a significant impact on student success, research opportunities, and teaching programs. We are grateful to the alumni, faculty, and other friends of the Department who have contributed in the past and continue to make a difference today.

Join us in helping shape the future of this field by contributing support for:

  • Scholarship or fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Retention of outstandingcurrent facultythrough named Professorships or Chairs.
  • A means for the department to attract and support talented young faculty, in their early years, who willadd tremendous value to the department and CU Boulder.
  • Investment in current and cutting-edge research.
  • Overall department needs that provide flexible funding to address everyday challenges and take on new and exciting opportunities that allow the department to flourish.

As you consider what might be most meaningful for you in supporting Biochemistry at CU Boulder, you can also choose to make quick, and very impactful gifts, by selecting one of the following options. ALL gift amounts are valued by Biochemistry and we appreciate your willingness to be involved and in a sense, pay-it-forward!

A New Fund! S.C.O.P.E. = Middle School Science Training

S.C.O.P.E. is short for Science Community Outreach Program and Education and aims to increase science identity and access for middle school students by bringing together CU Boulder student volunteers from a variety of degree programs including Biochemistry; Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Chemistry; Neuroscience; Integrated Physiology (IPHY); Psychology; Math; Education; Spanish; and more. These student volunteers then go out to local community middle schools to teach lessons around microscopy, chemistry and other natural science areas and encourage the students to make hypotheses about natural phenomena and test them - all while asking questions and engaging in a fun learning experience. For instance, in order to teach students about acids and bases, we bring in some common liquids (orange juice, detergent, vinegar, etc.) and the job of the student volunteers is to encourage the students to predict the pHs before testing it themselves on litmus paper.

The program has three core goals:

  1. Increase interest in science at the pre-high school level with an emphasis in service to schools with historically underrepresented students.
  2. Provide a unique opportunity for students to meet working scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and perform hands-on science experiments.
  3. Offer teaching and classroom opportunities at the pre-high school student level for staff, post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students within the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“Meet a Scientist, Be a Scientist” acts as the organization’s motto and primary mission for all interactions with students.

Your support will:

  • provide materials for those classes,
  • provide recruiting materials including training sessions (pizza, t-shirts, and more),
  • and help with transportation and other costs.

IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU DONATE!! Clicking the above link takes you to the new CU Giving page, where you will need to select the CU Boulder Campus and then fill in "Biochemistry" in the Gift Designation box to get the drop-down menu of all of the Biochemistry priority funding areas. You will see SCOPE Support Fund as the sixth option. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

More information on the S.C.O.P.E. program can be found here.

S.C.O.P.E. 2025

Biochemistry Department Support Fund

The Biochemistry Department Support Fund is available for the department chair to use for exciting new initiatives including:

  • new scholarship funds where this support is helpful in recognizing students who are performing well or those who can use a boost to ease the burden;
  • special programs that provide experiential learning for students - or - allow guest speakers to broaden access to diverse science and perspectives;
  • supporting student-led initiatives that give access to the community or provide mentoring for newly arriving students to navigate easier;
  • and other opportunities that come up and were just not anticipated.

IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU DONATE!! Clicking the above link takes you to the new CU Giving page, where you will need to select the CU Boulder Campus and then fill in "Biochemistry" in the Gift Designation box to get the drop-down menu of all of the Biochemistry priority funding areas. You will see Biochemistry Department Support Fund as the first option. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

S.C.O.P.E. 2022

Biochemistry Research Endowment Fund

CU Boulder Biochemistry is known for ground-breaking research, which has often led to entirely new fields of science. The department seeks to build its endowment in research to enable funding for exciting new research programs where federal support is not possible - and where many charitable foundations shy away from early-stage inquiry due to its inherent high-risk and high-rewardnature.

IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU DONATE!! Clicking the above link takes you to the new CU Giving page, where you will need to select the CU Boulder Campus and then fill in "Biochemistry" in the Gift Designation box to get the drop-down menu of all of the Biochemistry priority funding areas. You will see Biochemistry Research Endowment Fund (Quasi Endowment) as the third option. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Whiteley Lab Research

Biochemistry Engagement Fund

The department often has need for funds to:

  • support the recruitment of highly sought after faculty,
  • to use for appreciation events like scholarship dinners to allow benefactors and their scholarship recipients to meet,
  • and for department activities to enhance faculty and student experiences.

These funds are explicitly used for entertainment and are separated to ensure all policies are strictly adhered to as we recruit, celebrate and provide fun experiences alongside rigorous academics.

IMPORTANT BEFORE YOU DONATE!! Clicking the above link takes you to the new CU Giving page, where you will need to select the CU Boulder Campus and then fill in "Biochemistry" in the Gift Designation box to get the drop-down menu of all of the Biochemistry priority funding areas. You will see Biochemistry Donor Cultivation Entertainment Fund as the second option. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

P2P Mentoring 2023 Summer Social

For more information about opportunities to support the Biochemistry Department, please contactKatherine Koebel.