President’s Message

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...

Investment Performance through 5/31/09*

*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 ...

UMB President David J. Ramsay to Step Down

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 ...

Federated Campaign Update

$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...

Campaign Progress

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 ...

Giving USA Foundation Publishes Annual Report

Donations Down Somewhat; Giving Exceeds $300B Despite Economic Climate Despite the worst economic climate since the Great Depression, charitable giving in 2008 exceeded $300 billion for the second year in a row, according to Giving USA 2009. Donat...

Willard Hackerman Establishes $1M Scholarship at Towson University to Attract STEM Students

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 (...

Ernst & Young Foundation Donates $250K to UM’s Robert H. Smith School of Business

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...

UMBI Reorganization Approved by USM Board of Regents; Edward Eisenstein Appointed Acting President

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...

USM News Briefs

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...