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Immediate Gift Opportunities

You can quickly and easily contribute to the important CS initiatives and projects below. For more information, please contact us.

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Your gift of any size will be used for the most important current CS initiatives, ranging from enhancing the specific initiatives below to special new or one-time projects. Each year CS alumni and friends support the CS Annual Fund at levels from tens of dollars to thousands of dollars. The Department uses these gifts to strengthen all aspects of our mission, including the activities below. Annual fund gifts are important because they are flexible and they have immediate impact.
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Your gift of any size will support events that foster community within the CS Department, such as informal dinners and pizza lunches for CS undergraduates, the annual reception for our top-performing juniors and seniors, graduation receptions for all CS graduates, refreshments before Department seminars, the annual reception for incoming graduate students, CS alumni receptions that foster ties among CS alumni, and the annual CS Awards Ceremony. Some of these activities can only be funded by gifts directed to this Fostering CS Community Fund.
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Your gift of any size will enhance CS undergraduate education through support of scholarships for exceptional students, summer Research Assistantships, travel for undergraduates who join our highly successful annual ACM Programming Contest teams, milestone meetings for the teams who participate in our annual NEST (Nest for Emerging Software Technologies) contest, and so forth. Scholarships of $2,500 or more are acknowledged on our CS scholarships website.
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Your gift of any size will support special Alumni Scholarships for the top admits to our graduate program. These special one-time stipends make our offer of guaranteed support competitive with offers from other top CS departments, enabling us to attract the very best graduate students which enhances the environment for all CS students. Donations of $2,500 or more are acknowledged on the CS Alumni Scholarships website.
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Your gift of any size will enhance CS graduate education through support of summer Research Assistantships for first year graduate students, travel for graduate students participating in our highly successful annual ACM Programming Contest teams, merit-based graduate fellowships for our Ph.D. students, and so forth. Nine-month graduate fellowship gifts are acknowledged on our CS Graduate Fellowships website.
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Your gift of any size supports recruitment of top new faculty, for example by enhancing our offer of flexible funds for their special research needs or by seeding an early hire in a key area of need in advance of when the University can fully support the hire.
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Major gifts for named endowed chairs and professorships recognize the outstanding contributions of our very strongest faculty by providing prestige and national visibility as well as discretionary funding for their research. Endowed professorships are funded at a level of $750,000 while endowed chairs are funded at $2 million. The CS Department currently has two endowed chairs named for the donor, John P. Morgridge.
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Your gift of any size will support improvements to the CS building for extra-curricular activities. State funds are used to create research and instructional labs while private gifts enhance the environment beyond what state funds provide for extra-curricular activities. A recent example includes a major gift for remodeling of our largest lecture hall, CS 1240, to greatly enhance the acoustics, the presentation system, and the environment for interaction between the speaker and the audience in extra-curricular department seminars and meetings. An example current need is to upgrade our CS lobby to provide attractive and effective spaces for undergraduates to meet and study between classes.