Dean’s Innovation Fund
The College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Strategic Fund provides the flexibility to act quickly on emerging ideas—whether launching a new initiative to support students, accelerating faculty-led innovation, advancing interdisciplinary research or responding to urgent challenges as they arise. This fund fuels momentum, creativity and institutional agility, ensuring that promising opportunities don’t have to wait.
Student Success Fund
The College of Arts & Sciences Student Success Fund is a launchpad for Blue Hens — fueling internships, global travel, undergraduate research, peer advising and other hands-on experiences that bridge academic learning with real-world readiness. Your support ensures that all students — not just those who can afford it — gain the edge they need to lead, thrive and make their mark.
Research and Discovery Fund
The Research & Discovery Fund empowers faculty and graduate students to pursue bold, time-sensitive and interdisciplinary questions across the arts, humanities and sciences. Whether it’s decoding brain function, exploring new forms of creative expression or modeling climate resilience, this fund provides the flexible support needed to turn breakthrough ideas into impact. Your gift fuels seed grants, graduate fellowships and faculty-student research teams —because discovery needs believers, and progress needs patrons.
Faculty Excellence Fund
The College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Excellence Fund supports faculty development, mentorship and innovation —investing in the people who create unforgettable learning experiences. With your gift, we can recruit, retain and celebrate the educators who inspire students across every department of the College.
Scholarship Fund
The College of Arts & Sciences Scholarship Fund ensures that financial need never stands in the way of a student’s education, supporting Blue Hens from all walks of life with scholarships that open doors and change trajectories. Whether helping a first-year student stay enrolled or ensuring a senior crosses the finish line, your gift turns ambition into achievement.
Your support makes a difference. Thank you!
