Campaign Sustains Momentum
Thanks to the continuing generosity of dedicated alumni, parents, and friends, Boldly Brown: Campaign for Academic Enrichment reached $1.43 as of October 30, 2009. Significant recent gifts will fund new initiatives and support existing efforts across the institution.
Gift highlights include:
- To create the “Intrepid Heroes Professorship in Orthopaedic Surgery” in the Warren Alpert Medical School, Diane N. Weiss, a friend of the University, made a gift in the amount of $3 million "in honor of all those US soldiers, Marines, and airmen who have served our country with bravery, honor, and sacrifice, IN TIMES OF CONFLICT, AND IN TIMES OF PEACE."
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University $1,246,000 over six years to renew its support for postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities This grant builds upon a $3 million endowment gift made in September 2008 to fund graduate fellowships and support curriculum development in Brown’s humanities departments.
- From anonymous parents, a gift in the amount of $5 million was donated for the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, a center specifically designed to encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration, integration of new media, and experimentation in all of the arts.
- An anonymous donor has made a gift of $5 million to the Brown Institute for Brain Science, Brown’s unique interdisciplinary program for collaborative, theoretical, and experimental study of the brain.
- A gift in the amount of $1 million will support, at $500,000 each, the William R. Rhodes ’57 Center for International Economics and Finance and the Greater China Fund.
- A gift of $1 million from an anonymous donor has been earmarked as follows: $500,000 to establish the “Sunrise Scholarship Fund”; $300,000 to support the Brown Annual Fund; and $200,000 for a research/study/internship program for Brown students in Asia.
- With a gift of $1 million from anonymous parents, the university will add the following positions in athletics: $750,000 to endow the Assistant Squash Coach position; $125,000 for annual support for Women’s Squash; and $125,000 for the Athletic Director’s Excellence Fund.
- An anonymous gift from alumni parents in the amount of $1 million was received for the new aquatics center.
