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 our Assistant Dean for External Relations, Ron Thomann, to custom design the opportunity you really care about. (Contact information for Ron: tel 301-405-0486, email rthomann@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
• Summer research support for undergraduates
• Advanced undergraduate team projects
• Development support for new programs and initiatives

2. GRADUATE EDUCATION

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

3. FACULTY

• Endowed professorships and chairs
• Recruitment and retention packages
• Visiting professor and postdoctoral fellow program
• Endowed laboratories

4. MAJOR RESEARCH INITIATIVES

• Adapting to climate change
• Maryland-Goddard Space Institute
• Joint Quantum Institute
• CARMA – the nation’s premier millimeter radio astronomy observatory
• Material science and nanophysics
• Biophysics

5. THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES COMPLEX – a new research building currently in design.

6. FACILITIES

• Co-location of Geology department laboratories and offices
• Laboratories and offices for Condensed Matter research and teaching