MSU alum Richard Bush and Patty
McGuigan of Palo Alto, Calif.,
recently made a $25,000 gift to the
CAS Health and Risk Communication
Center (HRCC) “so that Michigan
State University can be on the
leading edge of health commmunication
research.”
“We had a need to return all the wonderful opportunities that MSU has given Richard,” McGuigan said. Richard graduated from MSU in 1967 and felt that it was the tool that allowed him to become all that he has. Richard has started four tech companies over the last 20 years and they have all been successful.”
For his most recent business, Bush
brought together a team of key
marketing and engineering executives
from Oracle, Nortel Networks,
Cisco Systems, Redback Networks
and Spirent Communications to
address a problem they experienced
in their respective companies:
a growing identity gap
between network access control
and user directories. Bush is the
chairman and founder of Identity
Engines, a company that provides
identity security for network systems.
He has over 30 years of hightechnology
industry experience in
engineering, sales, and marketing
positions from entry to top executive
level. McGuigan is a highly
successful commercial real estate
executive in the Silicon Valley area.
The donation established the“Bush and McGuigan Organ Donation
Communication Research
Fund” in the Health and Risk Communication
Center.
Several professors in the college including,
Sandi Smith, Hee Sun Park,
and Mary Bresnahan, are working
on projects centered on different
aspects of the communication
process to persuade the public
to document their wishes and to
engage in family discussion about
organ donation.
Smith, the director of the HRCC,
said that she is “thankful for the
generosity of Dick and Patty, and
she hopes that their donation will
serve as a model so that others will
give for research purposes.”