Endowed gifts are invested funds that provide a reliable stream of income to our programs. The endowed gift value for the College of Arts and Sciences prior to the campaign was $14.7 million. During the past five years, the college has raised an additional $10 million in endowed gifts.

Scholarships and fellowships help recruit and retain top undergraduate and graduate students. With an ambitious 100 million dollar goal to raise for scholarships, the UO is approximately 65% of the way there.

Many donors began planning for Campaign Oregon even before it was announced. Planned gifts have contributed $30.8 million to our university-wide campaign total, and many CAS alumni are following their generous example. Seventy-one have indicated the College of Arts and Sciences in their estate plans, including life income gifts.

There have also been many “firsts” for our departments in Campaign Oregon. A handful of newly established endowments have been celebrated as the first in the departments’ history.

We hope there are many more!

— Jane Gary, Executive Director for College Advancement

“My philosophy is to do whatever it takes to get a good education,” she said.

Her commitment to her career goals has gotten her where she is now: starting her senior year in the University of Oregon’s Classics program as a 2006 Fugelsang Scholar. Each year, the Fugelsang Scholarship is awarded based on recommendations from faculty members to four undergraduates with demonstrated financial need.

Without having to work to pay tuition, Copp said she has more free time to devote to assisting faculty members with their research. For the past year, she’s assisted John Nicols, professor of classics and history, in scouring ancient texts for references to the word hospitium, the Latin term for hospitality, to find its changes in meaning.

Copp said she expects this close examination of the Latin language will enhance her classics studies.

“Having to analyze those texts so closely gives me insight to the meaning,” Copp said.

Nicols said he has been impressed with Copp’s work. “She possesses an unusual degree of empathy in that she listens with attention and care, yet does so without suspending her own critical judgment.”

— KY

“If I didn’t have a scholarship I could have never come to the U.S.,” said Lorenzo, a graduate student in human physiology who received the 2006 Risa Palm Graduate Fellowship, awarded annually to select College of Arts and Sciences graduate students.

Lorenzo first came to Oregon from Argentina in 1999 on a track scholarship. It was an offer Lorenzo couldn’t refuse, he said. It allowed him to combine his two passions: studying and athletics.

In Argentina it would be more difficult, he said. Being in the United States allowed him to pursue both interests. “I was able to get an education and still grow as an athlete,” he said.

And grow as an athlete he did. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in exercise and movement science in 2003, Lorenzo went on to compete in the 2004 Summer Olympics decathlon with the Argentina team.

Since then Lorenzo has returned to UO. He finished his master’s degree this summer and is now pursuing his doctorate. His research will focus on the effects of thermoregulation on athletic performance in hot, humid conditions.

— KY

The majority of endowed dollars within the humanities has come in the form of student support. In fact, the number of scholarships dedicated to students in the humanities has doubled.

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures awarded the first Hansen Scholarship in 2005–2006. This endowment is the first in the department’s history. “The scholarship is motivation for our majors to continue their pursuit of German language and culture,” says Susan C. Anderson, department head.

With nearly 600 majors, the Department of English can now offer an award to one of its top undergraduate students through the Debora Tims Ellis Scholarship.

The Pete Nickerson scholarship will provide “last dollar” awards for students in the Oregon Chinese Flagship Program who may need a financial boost in order to be able to study abroad in China during their junior year.

The James F. Miller Theatre Complex will break ground next year, expanding the existing facilities with a new flexible theater, additional classrooms and improved creative laboratory space.

NATURAL SCIENCES

Overall, the college’s endowment for science has grown to more than 3.2 million dollars, from $870,000.

The first fully endowed chair in the sciences, the Rosaria P. Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry, will be appointed in 2007.

The Hubbard family joined together to establish the first endowed fund for the Department of Computer and Information Science in 2003.

The Alice C. Tyler Perpetual Trust established the first instructional laboratory for green chemistry in the world at the UO.

The Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories represents the first phase of a significant capital investment that aims to bring diverse scientific researchers under the same roof.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Six new funds have been established to support social science faculty, which triples the number of endowed funds supporting excellence in teaching and research.

Awarded only to social science students in the Society of College Scholars, the Rothert Family Social Sciences Scholarship represents an innovative idea that will encourage student achievement across the discipline.

Two alumni, Ed Colligan ’90 and Alanson Kleinsorge ’73, have made a critical difference for more than 900 students and seventeen full-time faculty in the Department of Political Science. They have established the first two endowed funds in the department’s history, one for faculty and one for student support.

The Geographic Information Science program at the UO has grown steadily due to a new flexible source of income for emerging needs in this rapidly changing field.