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 Campaign Update
Great Expectations, The Campaign
for Maryland is currently at $421,058,089 and growing!
Major Gifts, Major Impact
Mathematics Professor Makes Probabilities Become Possibilities
For Michael
Brin, the road traveled from his childhood home in Russia to America, where he became a leading mathematics scholar and philanthropist at Maryland, continues to be a remarkable journey. It has been nearly three decades since Brin and his wife Eugenia immigrated to America, where Michael accepted a visiting professorship in the mathematics department at Maryland. Recently, the Brins gave $2.72 million to the College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, the largest gift to a university department by a faculty member at Maryland. With his signature enthusiasm Michael says, "I love mathematics and I want to promote mathematics everywhere, but especially at Maryland."
Horowitz Endowment Champions Health Literacy to Promote the Public's Health
According to a national study published in 2003, nearly one half of American adults have difficulty understanding basic health information. Poor health literacy not only contributes to health disparities, but it is a factor in thousands of preventable deaths each year. Maryland's new School of Public Health is poised to lead the nation in improving health literacy. Thanks to the vision and commitment of health literacy advocate Alice M. Horowitz Ph.D. '92, the school's first endowment creates the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy.
Volunteers Make the Difference
Alum Aims to Grow People and Prosperity at Maryland
When scholarships campaign co-chair Gary Williams '68 asked his good friend from New Jersey to co-chair the business school's Great Expectations campaign, Milt Matthews '68 jumped at the opportunity. "We look back at our careers and none of this would have been possible without the University of Maryland doing what it did for us," says Matthews, retired vice president of sales at The Hershey Company. He and his wife Becky are among Maryland's top donors having given more than $500,000 in scholarships. Now he is on a mission to translate the strategy of his career success to the business school campaign.
Helping Students Reach for the Stars
Graduate Fellowships Benefit Students and Donors
As Aydin Haririnia Ph.D. '07 worked to complete his doctoral research on protein structure and interaction, he urgently needed a powerful, high-end laptop to present his research at conferences and complete his dissertation. With only a meager student income, such a purchase would have been impossible without the help of a Herman F. Kraybill Fellowship. One of numerous fellowships funded in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences since the start of Great Expectations, it made the critical difference in Haririnia's success. Such awards will also be key in attracting new graduate students to the college's expanding programs in the biosciences.
Maryland's First Woman to Receive an Economics Degree Helps Others Achieve
As a teenager, Jessie Cowan Hartline '55 wanted to know everything about everything. So she decided majoring in economics was the best way to discover this. The Baltimore native who became the first woman to receive a degree in economics at Maryland says her undergraduate years were invaluable. "I got so much out of my Maryland experience. It was quite remarkable," she says. Wanting to ensure that more graduate students are afforded similar academic opportunities in economics at Maryland, she created the Dr. Jessie Cowan Hartline Economics Scholarship.
Loyal Terp Paves Way to Maryland from the Virgin Islands
When long time Terrapin Club supporter Doug Dawson moved to the Virgin Islands his Terrapin pride was not left behind. His new colleagues and friends quickly learned of his love for Maryland and his plans to bring a four-foot Testudo sculpture to stand guard on his front porch. Dawson's commitment to Maryland grew even stronger, however, as he heard about local students' struggles for educational opportunities. "I realized that for students to get a good college education, they have to go off-island, to another country. And if they don't get scholarships they can't do it," says Dawson. "I see a need there and I can make a difference by helping them to come to Maryland."
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