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 Campaign Update
Great Expectations, The Campaign
for Maryland is currently at $432.8 million and growing!
Major Gifts, Major Impact
Admiral Stansfield and Marion Turner Fund Assures a Living Legacy
Looking back, Stansfield Turner, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency under the Carter Administration, can plainly see the benefits of merging his military background with the student experience in the Maryland School of Public Policy over the past 15 years. Now, looking forward, he has laid plans for others to follow his lead with a $1 million bequest to fund a visiting professorship to continue building bridges between the military and academia.
Find Your Niche for Giving
IRA Rollover Offers Golden Opportunity for Giving
There is still time to use your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) to support Maryland’s future with considerable tax savings for yourself. Provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA 2006) offer a golden opportunity to make charitable contributions from your IRA that will not be counted as income, but you must act before Dec. 31, 2007.
Helping Students Reach for the Stars
Pre-Seed Fund Jump Starts Student Companies
Warren Citrin, co-founder of Solipsys Corp. (now Raytheon Solipsys) wanted to help young entrepreneurs jump start new ventures that can impact the world. He saw Maryland’s strong commitment to entrepreneurship training as fertile ground to achieve that goal. With a gift of $250,000, Citrin established the Impact Pre-Seed Fund. The first award is already helping a student company move toward commercialization of a high-tech, low-cost product that makes instruction in the growing field of microelectronics cost effective for universities everywhere.
Retired Professor Supports Undeclared Majors Exploring Different Paths
“There’s a purpose to education beyond careerism,” says Retired Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies Betty J. Beckley. “I want people to have the freedom to explore and find out what is right for them, and not be discouraged from doing that.” To support sophomores who have not declared majors and want to take on a number of subject areas, the Betty J. Beckley Award for Letters and Sciences provides three students each year with scholarships as they explore different academic paths.
Securing a Faculty Competitive with the Best
Bentley Named Fischell Distinguished Professor
William Bentley, chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, spends his days working at the intersection of engineering and human physiology, imagining the next generation of biomedical devices that can help treat disease and save lives. To recognize his innovative ingenuity and support his work in emerging technologies, Bentley has been named the first Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor, a position that will help shape the future of bioengineering at Maryland.
Building First Class Learning Environments
New Space on a Grand Scale Showcases Art and Culture
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora opened the doors to a grand, new space in the Cole Student Activities Building on Oct. 15. Friends and benefactors gathered to celebrate the spacious, modern gallery and the inaugural exhibit, Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell that will begin a national tour in 2008. Driskell, a distinguished university professor of art emeritus, is a nationally recognized artist, art historian, collector and curator. He curates the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. Collection of Fine Art, and welcomed Camille Cosby as guest speaker for the opening event.
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