A Clark School Giving Priority

In Brief

The Clark School has benefited immensely from the many professorships created over the years by alumni and friends to honor great teachers and innovators and attract and retain more of them. An outstanding faculty makes a great difference not only in the teaching of undergraduates but also in the building of leading research programs that improve life and attract corporate and government funding-and the best graduate students. Now the Clark School seeks to expand significantly the number and size of its professorships so that it may more closely match the funding available to other leading engineering schools for this crucial need.

Impact

New professorships will help the Clark School to compete more successfully in attracting and retaining the very best researchers and teachers, with the specific goal of increasing the number of Clark School professors who are members of the National Academy of Engineering.

Opportunities

You can support the Clark School faculty in the following ways:

• Create faculty chairs and professorships, with naming recognition for fully-funded support
• Create term professorships through endowment gifts or gifts over a period of years to support a specific professor
• Create term research professorships for new faculty, to ensure their recruitment and to provide support for them to launch their research programs
• Create centers of excellence, in which one or more senior and several junior faculty members with a shared research focus are recruited together
• Provide funds to support professors' research equipment purchases
• Provide funds to support young faculty and graduate student travel to professional conferences.

How to Participate

We encourage you to join the alumni and friends who have linked their names to an honored professor and strengthened the Clark School's faculty by establishing chairs and professorships.

Please contact us for more information.