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Innovation“I’ve championed innovation during mycareer as a scientist at IBM. As in the past, innovative thinkerswill solve some of today’s most perplexing problems andmake discoveries we can only imagine. My wife, Elizabeth,and I wanted to hasten innovation at UMass Amherst wherepossibilities for breakthroughs abound. To that end, we haveendowed scholarships for undergraduates and a professorshipthat gives young faculty members opportunities to developinto the nation’s leading researchers.”John A. Armstrong ’03Hon.Vice President, UMass Amherst Foundation(Ret.) Vice President, Science and Technology, IBM Corp.Armstrong and his wife, Elizabeth, have enriched the campus by endowing aprofessorship and funding scholarships and student research with $2.4 million in gifts.92UMass Amherst • Fall 2008www.UMassAmherstMagazine.com93

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