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Shared Instrumentation Lab Campaign 2026

$35,241
70%
Raised toward our $50,000 Goal
50 Donors
Project has ended
Project ended on June 12, at 12:00 AM PDT
Project Owners

36 Hours Left — Double Your Impact Before Time Runs Out. Help Us Cross the Finish Line!

June 10, 2026

We are in the final stretch — with just 36 hours remaining in our campaign!

Thanks to your incredible support, we’ve made remarkable progress, raising $27,211 from 39 donors. Every gift is fueling critical, hands-on learning experiences for our students and advancing research across our departments.

Now is the moment to maximize your impact. For a limited time, all gifts are matched 1:1, with qualifying gifts ($5K–$100K) matched 2:1 doubling or even tripling the power of your generosity.

With the finish line in sight, we invite you to help us push forward by making a gift and sharing this campaign with your network: https://crowdfunding.ucla.edu/sil2026

With deepest gratitude, 

UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

3 Days Left — Let’s Finish Strong!

June 09, 2026

WOW!!! To our valued UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumni, friends and supporters: your incredible commitment over the past few weeks has been truly inspiring. Your generosity is making a direct and meaningful difference for our students!

Because of you, we’ve raised $26,111 from 36 donors — a remarkable show of support. But we’re not done yet…

With just three days remaining, there is still time to make an impact. Every gift — of any amount — is deeply appreciated and tax-deductible.

Your support helps provide essential instrumentation that benefits not only our students, but also the researchers working tirelessly toward the next scientific breakthroughs.

We invite you to help us make these final days count by sharing our campaign with your network — friends, family and colleagues — and encouraging others to join you in supporting this important initiative.

https://crowdfunding.ucla.edu/sil2026

With gratitude,

UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Just One Week Left — Help Us Keep Going. Together We Can Get There!

June 03, 2026

Since launching on May 12, we’ve raised $24,811 from 29 donors — an incredible show of support from our community. Thank you for helping us move this campaign forward!

Your generosity is already making a difference, supporting essential equipment such as NMR probes, gas chromatographs, closed-cycle cryostat spectrometers, plate readers and other advanced tools that enable cutting-edge analysis of small molecules and biomolecules.

With just one week remaining before our campaign concludes on June 11 at 11:59 p.m. PST — we are completely focused on ensuring our students and researchers have access to the modern, fully operable instrumentation they need to grow and succeed as scientists.

To help maximize impact, all gifts are currently being matched — dollar for dollar, and gifts of $5K – $100K are being matched 2:1 — offering meaningful opportunities to double or even triple your support.

We would be deeply grateful if you could continue sharing this campaign with your networks — friends, family and colleagues: https://crowdfunding.ucla.edu/sil2026

Thank you so much for your continued support!

UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

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$50

Bruin Spirit

Contributions at this level enable the acquisition of more specialized instrumentation, such as NMR probes or chromatography systems, critical for advanced chemical research and teaching laboratories.

$100

Supporter

Contributions at this level can help fund major equipment purchases like gas chromatographs, plate readers, and other tools allowing for cutting-edge analytical characterization ranging from small molecules to biomolecules.

$500

Contributor

Contributions at this level can help fund high-end instrumentation such as mass spectrometers and other advanced analytical systems.

$750

Empower

Donations at this level empower the department to purchase state-of-the-art, high-performance equipment that transforms the research and teaching landscape, such as X-ray diffractometers and electron microscopy systems.

$1,500

Inspiration

Donations at this level of support enables transformational purchases, such as instrumentation for advanced solid-state and biomaterials characterization or spectroscopy. This support elevates the department’s research and teaching capacity and fosters groundbreaking discoveries.