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The Mark A. Ratner
Chemistry Laboratory
A Generous Gift to Lusher Charter School by the Ratner Family

Lusher Charter School is honored to announce a gift by the Ratner family for the renovation and refurbishment of the Mark A. Ratner Chemistry Laboratory at the school’s Fortier Campus. The generous gift will provide the high school with a 21st century laboratory setting designed to teach students the principles and latest breakthroughs in general and Advanced Placement Chemistry. Paired with the federal Foreign Contributions Grant, the Ratner gift will provide the critical infrastructure changes to the facility—plumbing, electrical, ventilation—for new equipment and student work stations to be installed. By the fall of 2008, Lusher students will be engaged in complex chemical laboratory activities and demonstrations that to now have not been possible in the school’s out-dated lab setting. This will further enhance Lusher’s strong science curriculum for a new generation of students.

The gift is being made by the Ratner family in honor of their uncle, Dr. Mark A. Ratner, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry at Northwestern University. Dr. Ratner is widely considered the father of the field of nanotechnology and molecular electronics. Dr. Ratner’s spirit of innovation and scholarship will be an inspiration to young scientists at Lusher as they begin to explore the field to which he has dedicated his illustrious career. The Lusher Charter School community is truly honored and humbled to be a part of the legacy of such a dedicated and accomplished scientist, and hope that the Mark A. Ratner Chemistry Laboratory lays the groundwork for further contributions to the field.

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