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Modernize Our Teaching and Research Space

Named Gifts

Chairs and Professorships: Fueling Research Innovation

Faculty who are named to endowed professorships and chairs receive a significant career honor that also elevates the stature of the department. The additional stipend they receive frees them to conduct innovative research not covered by traditional funding programs. And who better to freely innovate than the faculty at the nation's number one program - some of the world's foremost experts in their fields.

Out of approximately 50 tenure-track professors, the department has a dozen with named professorships or chairs. Our goal is to increase that number to help us attract and retain top faculty.

To read about how endowed professorships and chairs have directly impacted our faculty, read the stories below.

Professor Billie F. Spencer
Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering

Professor Praveen Kumar
Colonel Harry F. and Frankie M. Lovell Endowed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gifts can be given outright, or made over time.  In addition to cash, securities, and real estate, you can support CEE as part of your overall financial, tax, and estate planning with deferred gifts such as bequests, charitable trusts and annuities, pooled income funds, retained life estates, retirement accounts, and life insurance.  We have planned giving advisers who can work with you at no cost to arrange options most suitable to you.