Eli Lilly Representatives Tour the College's Instructional Technology Facilities

On Friday, Sept. 19, 2003, College and University officials escorted representatives from Eli Lilly Co. on a tour of the College’s instructional technology facilities. A $500,000 gift from Lilly, in August 2002, helped fund the conversion of former unproductive space into state-of-the-art learning centers. The tour stopped at the College’s ground-floor media conversion center and Web-based applications production facility, and the 660-square-foot computer classroom on the first floor of the C.C. Little Building. The classroom, which became fully operational for both PharmD and PhD courses in winter term 2004, includes 28 computer stations, interactive capabilities, Internet services, and other instructional features. Tour participants, seen here outside the computer classroom, include (left to right): Scott Canute, vice president of manufacturing, Eli Lilly; Susan Shields, major gift officer, corporation and foundation relations, U-M; Rick Cooley, team leader, process analytical measurement technology, Eli Lilly; George L. Kenyon, dean, U-M College of Pharmacy; Peter Niedbala, director of pharmacy advancement and external relations, U-M College of Pharmacy; Jefferson Porter, assistant vice president for development, U-M; and Tobias Massa, executive director, global regulatory affairs operations/chemistry, manufacturing, and controls, Eli Lilly..