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Tufts University - Beyond Boundaries Newsletter Spring 2008 - Index

Inside…
Rx for clinical
teaching faculty
Mary Lee, J75, M83,
draws on her roots with
a gift to support medical
education.
Diplomatic effort
The Fletcher School’s
Karamanlis Professorship,
now fully funded,
honors legacy of Greek
statesman.
Habitat for the
humanities
John Halvey, A82, says
thanks to professor and
mentor with a gift to the
Humanities Center.
Rising to the
occasion
Lonnie Norris, DG80,
and Louis Fiore, D62,
give the School of Dental
Medicine a lift.
Quality of life
Tufts Hillel sets a
national Hillel record,
raising more than $6.4
million to expand programming
on campus.
Spring 2008 News of the Campaign for Tufts
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The largest single gift in
Tufts’ history, $136 million,
has resulted from an act
of philanthropy by Doble
Engineering Co. founder
Frank Currier Doble, ’11,
nearly half a century ago
and nearly a century after
he graduated from Tufts.
Just nine years later, in 1920, Doble launched
his small company, which became a world
leader in diagnostic testing for the electric
utility industry.
When he drew up his estate in 1960, Mr.
Doble (1886–1969) included generous
trust distributions that, with
the recent sale of Doble
Engineering Co., now will
yield approximately $272
million to be equally
divided between Tufts
and Lesley University,
to which Mr. Doble also
had close ties.
Mr. Doble’s generosity
enables Tufts to
begin development of an
interdisciplinary laboratory
that will advance research
and collaboration in biology and
engineering. The gift also will support
student financial aid, faculty development,
and other needs.
“Frank Doble was a true innovator who
foresaw the potential of the electric power
industry when it was still in its infancy,” says
Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow. “The technologies
that he developed made the industry
safer and more productive. In founding Doble
Engineering, Frank Doble pushed the boundar-
Spring 2008
Largest single gift in
Tufts’ history stems from
48-year-old charitable trust
ies of science and technology, just as our faculty
and students do today. We are grateful that his
legacy will help future generations to attend
Tufts and enable us to create a new laboratory,
named in his honor, to advance collaboration
among our biologists and engineers.”
Contingent on approval by the city, the
laboratory is to be built on Tufts property at
550 and/or 574 Boston Ave., near the existing
Science and Technology Center. A Cambridgebased
design firm, Ellenzweig Associates, has
been retained to draw up a detailed plan for the
building, and the university expects to select an
architect by the middle of this year.
The new laboratory will foster
joint research between scientists from
the School of Engineering and the Department
of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences,
while providing much-needed space for individual
disciplines in engineering and biology,
says Jamshed Bharucha, provost and senior vice
president, Tufts’ chief academic officer. He said
Tufts will work closely with the community
during development.
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The new laboratory
building will
tremendously
benefit crossdisciplinary
research between
scientists from
the School of
Engineering and
the Department
of Biology in Arts
and Sciences.