Repository: UIHistories Project: Dedication - Beckman Institute [PAGE 17]

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and Genetic Medicine;forRockefeller University, an endowed research professorship; for the University of California at Irvine, the Beckman Laser Institute; and for the California Institute of Technology, the Laboratories of Behavioral Biology and the Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis. These gifts and others will yield benefits to society for generations to come and help prepare society to face and solve rationally the problems that confront it. In the Arnold O. and Mabel M. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, we see the embodiment of Arnold Beckman's vision—maintaining the efforts of outstanding researchers across a wide spectrum of sciences in a long-range focus on major complex questions. The Institute, with its Center for Materials Sciences, Computers and Computation and its Center for Biology, Behavior and Cognition, can serve as a catalyst for productive and complex research, interdisciplinary, unfettered by traditional limits on interaction among researchers, and all to the benefit of mankind. The Beckmans have set a standard for selfless service. To generosity and public spirit, they have added a coherent philosophy and creative imagination to build an environment for the advancement of mankind. In recognition of their leadership and their encouragement to this University, and in honor of their enduring concern for humanity, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois awards Distinguished Service Medallions to Mabel and Arnold Beckman.