Endowments

The Department of Physics, through the University of Illinois Foundation, offers its alumni and friends a number of current and deferred gift options to help maintain the excellence that is the tradition of Illinois Physics.

These options include the following types of gifts, which are typically established through permanent endowment funds:

Endowed Faculty Chair

Enables the Department to attract and retain professors of proven brilliance
Income may be used to provide salary support and much of the professor's specific teaching and research expenses
Minimum required gift: $2 million

Endowed Professorship

Helps the Department attract and retain promising professors early in their careers. This is one way to ensure the continued quality of the Department's faculty
The income may be used to augment the professor's salary or support the professor's scholarly and research needs
Minimum required gift: $500,000

Endowed Fellow

Enables the Department to invite scholars and others who have distinguished themselves in their fields to visit campus and share their expertise with students and faculty for variable periods of time. Income will be used to provide stipends to visiting fellows
Minimum required gift: $250,000

Endowed Research

Support research activities in the department
Income may be used to purchase such things as laboratory equipment, research materials, computer equipment, or pay for staff support
Minimum required gift: $200,000

Endowed Graduate Fellowship/Assistantship

Provides a crucial means of attracting some of the best and brightest graduate students in the world to the Department
Income will be applied toward the support of selected students
Minimum required gift: $250,000

Endowed Lecture Series

Allow faculty and students to interact with distinguished leaders who are influencing disciplines, society, the nation, or the world
Income from the fund is used to provide the resources to cover the expenses of bringing such speakers to campus
Minimum required gift: $100,000