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The Dawn M. Elliott Biomedical Engineering Research Fund
In honor of the biomedical engineering program’s 10-year anniversary, help enrich the academic experiences of our Blue Hen students by making a gift to the Dawn Elliott Biomedical Engineering Research Fund. The fund supports hands-on research activities while advancing a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms that drive disease and developing technologies and therapies to improve human health.
From now until June 30, 2022, a donor will match your gift 1:1 up to $50,000, doubling the impact of your gift! And who doesn’t love a challenge? Help ensure we maximize our potential in biomedical engineering!
Contribute to BME
Making a gift to Biomedical Engineering is simple with our easy, online giving form.
If you prefer to send a check, please make it payable to the University of Delaware. Note Biomedical Engineering in the memo section of your check to assure your gift is allocated correctly. Checks should be sent to the Office of Annual Giving, University of Delaware, 83 E. Main St., Newark, DE 19716.
Gifts from individuals, companies, and foundations provide the College of Engineering with the necessary resources to assure the vitality and growth of our educational and research programs.
Your gift may be designated to the Department or Fund of your choice with the confidence that it will be used for the purpose you intended. The College’s giving opportunities are described below.
Annual Support
Support for the College & Departments
The College of Engineering utilizes unrestricted funds to recruit outstanding faculty, support students, enhance research and underwrite graduate students.
Gifts can be directed to the College of Engineering and to each of the engineering departments, centers and programs.
Capital Projects
Major Gift Support for Capital Projects and Needs
Women in Engineering (WIE) exists to mentor and encourage the participation of women, an under-represented sector of students and faculty in the College of Engineering.
Resources to Insure Successful Engineers (RISE) seeks to provide a supportive atmosphere to insure academic success. RISE programs serve students with particular focus on African American, Hispanic American and Native American students. A professional staff provides mentoring assistance and, when needed, financial assistance for books and other expenses. Funds are often provided for tutoring and special academic advisement. RISE maintains a Student Advisory Council that ensures continuous improvement in workshops, mentoring and tutoring efforts.
Facilities
The Patrick T. Harker Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory (Harker Lab) is a hub of teaching and research on campus. The 194,000-square-foot facility brings together students and faculty from various disciplines to teach, learn and conduct research in a collaborative environment. Research provides content for the curriculum and students learn through the exploration of real-world problems. Read more.
Endowments
Permanent Funds
Academic Enrichment Awards are used to recruit outstanding students offered at the time of admission, and are usable at some point during the undergraduate experience for Study Abroad (students attain a global perspective in their area of study with a renowned faculty member during Winter Session); Service-Based Learning (students participate in activities such as Engineers Without Borders that combine classroom concepts with real-world implications and social responsibility; Undergraduate Research – (students work with faculty to solve current and challenging research problems.)
Undergraduate Scholarships provide tuition assistance to students who demonstrate exceptional merit based academic promise or financial need with specific criteria determined by the donor. The annual Celebration of Scholarship program affords the opportunity for donors to meet the recipients of the scholarships and awards.
Graduate Fellowships provide 9-month stipends of $22,500 for first-year graduate students, essential for the recruitment of top doctoral students. Fellowships are for the first two semesters of study, allowing selection of research focus; subsequently, students are paid through research grants.
Young Faculty Chairs provide an annual stipend of $50,000 that is used to recruit and retain talented young faculty. The stipend complements their compensation with funds for special research, speaking engagements, conferences and publications.
Senior Faculty Chairs are highly prized by outstanding faculty because of their prestige and academic value. Presently, 23% of faculty in the college hold named professorships. The Endowed Chair is a most coveted position with funds providing a portion of the professor’s annual expenses.
The University Board of Trustees sets the endowment income expenditure rate. Currently the spending rate is approximately 4.0%.
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