UI grad gives $250,000 for Public Health

IOWA CITY -- The University of Iowa College of Public Health has received a $250,000 gift from Carol Gleich of Moline, Ill.

An outright gift of $50,000 supports construction of the college's new building, now under way in Iowa City. An additional $200,000 bequest will establish an endowed travel and training fund for female students and faculty in the college, the first fund of its kind in the college's history.

Gleich, a retired director with the U.S. Public Health Service's medical division, holds four degrees from the UI, from before the College of Public Health was established: bachelor's degrees in medical technology and general science (1958), and a master's degree (1967) and doctoral degree (1972) in science education. She was an assistant professor of pathology in what is now the UI Carver College of Medicine from 1967 to 1977, and served as director of the college's Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program during that time.