Caltech board chair emeritus and longtime Compaq chairman Benjamin M. (Ben) Rosen (BS '54) and his wife, Donna, have made a bequest commitment to advance scientific exploration at the intersection of biology and engineering. It is anticipated that the couple's latest gift may double the endowment for the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.
Established in 2008 with $18 million from the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation of New York, the Rosen Center has become a hub for research and educational initiatives that bring together applied physics, chemical engineering, synthetic biology, computer science, and more.
"Just as we had the digital revolution in the last century, we are having a biological sciences revolution in this century," Ben Rosen says. "And Caltech is the place to be."
Written by Stacey Hong