The gift, from a UA alumnus and his wife, will help provide engineering students with hands-on experience in biomedical device fabrication.

Each year, the Brenna Ilana Berger Memorial Scholarship provides $30,000 to two communication majors who have faced significant hardships in pursuing their education.

The John Paul Schaefer Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences is the fourth of recently announced endowed chairs associated with James C. Wyant's $20 million gift to the Wyant College of Optical Sciences.