Giving Opportunities

Here we list some of the many ways you can support the work of the College. As most supporters do, you may target any gift at a specific department or institute. Check out our strategic plan for other ideas, or contact Andrea Morris to custom design the opportunity you really care about. (Contact information for Andrea Morris: 301-405-4572, email aemorris@umd.edu)

Your gift can be on any scale with which you feel comfortable, and can be structured to suit your wishes: to honor a parent, to be provided over a period of years, or as a planned gift.

1. UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:

  • Endowed scholarships
  • Co-operative efforts to increase the number of well qualified math and science teachers
  • Research support for undergraduates
  • Advanced undergraduate team projects
  • Development support for new programs and initiatives
  • Clinical health professions advising and preparation

2. GRADUATE EDUCATION

  • Endowed fellowships
  • Enhancement fellowships
  • Recruitment awards
  • Research support: travel, conferences and publication charges

3. FACULTY

  • Research infrastructure endowment
  • Endowed professorships and chairs
  • Recruitment and retention packages
  • Visiting professor and postdoctoral fellow programs
  • Endowed laboratories

4. MAJOR RESEARCH INITIATIVES

  • Climate change
  • Maryland-Goddard Space Science Institute
  • Genomics
  • Host-pathogen interactions
  • Joint Quantum Institute
  • CARMA – the nation’s premier millimeter radio astronomy observatory
  • Material science and nanophysics
  • Biophysics
  • Evolution
  • Biologics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Ecology and the Environment

5. THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES COMPLEX – a new research building.

6. FACILITIES

  • Research laboratories
  • Teaching laboratories
  • Instructional spaces
  • Landscaping and beautification