Dear Friends and Colleagues: As we wind down Fiscal Year 2009, I would like to thank the Board and staff for their tireless work. In what we all acknowledge was a challenging year, our staff stepped up their already superlative efforts, and the B...
LeaderNotes - June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
*Estimated; Private Investments marked as of 12/31/08 Endowment S&P 500 80/20 60/40 Latest Mo 4.0% 5.6% 4.7% 3.8% Calendar Yr 4.0% 3.0% 2.9% 2.7% Fiscal ...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Transformational Leader Pushed West Side Baltimore Redevelopment During 15 Year Tenure David J. Ramsay, who helped push the redevelopment of Baltimore's west side while presiding over prestigious law and medical schools, has announced that he will ...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
$1.2 Billion Raised Toward Goal USM institutions have made tremendous progress toward the federated $1.7 billion campaign goal. With two years remaining, more than $1.2 billion has been raised as of May 31, 2009 (see table below). Despite the d...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Publicly Announced Campaigns Institution Announced Goal 5/31/09 Bowie 11/08 $15M $7.7M Coppin 10/07 $15M $4.0M Frostburg 10/08 $15M $9.9M Salisbury ...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Gift Creates Hackerman Presidential Polytechnic Scholarship Willard Hackerman, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Class of 1935, has donated $1 million to Towson University to establish scholarships enabling qualifying Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has received a $250,000 gift from the Ernst & Young Foundation and will use the gift to create a new program for freshmen. The school says it will establish the Ernst & Young Freshman F...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
On June 19, the USM Board of Regents approved recommendations issued by an ad hoc committee appointed which will result in the alignment of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) centers with other USM institutions. Recommend...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The National Instituties of Health has awarded $20 million to the University of Maryland School of Medicine to create a Genomic Sequencing Center for Infectious Diseases. The grant is the largest awarded to the school's Institute for Genome Sciences...
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Linda Ringer joins the Foundation, coming from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Linda served over seven years as assistant dean in Journalism, managing the college's budget, finances, business, and personnel fu...
