Endowments for Innovation
Endowments for Innovation are “venture funds” to keep the Paul G. Allen School at the forefront!
Endowed chairs, professorships, fellowships, and scholarships are awarded to specific individuals — highly meritorious faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students — to provide recognition and support.
Innovation endowments fulfill a critical role. by providing funding that enables the Director of the Allen School to invest in initiatives that have the promise of significantly increasing the school’s innovativeness and competitiveness in any of its three critical missions of education, research, and outreach.
The Allen School currently has three innovation endowments: the Wilma Bradley Endowed Fund for Innovation in Computer Science & Engineering, the Edward D. Lazowska Endowed Fund for Innovation and Leadership in Computer Science & Engineering, and the Inclusive Education Endowed Excellence Fund. In recent years, these endowments have been used:
- To provide wide-ranging support to enhance inclusive education
- To provide startup funds for new faculty hires, allowing them to launch their research programs immediately when they arrive, to launch new Capstone Design Courses in the undergraduate program.
- The provision of first-year fellowships for top graduate student applicants, which increases the likelihood that they choose to attend the UW;
- To support faculty teams writing large-scale research proposals that will take the Allen School in new directions.
Interested in learning more?
Contact Marzette Mondin, Senior Director of Advancement in the Paul G. Allen School, marz (at) uw.edu
Named funds are available for gifts of $100,000 and above. Appropriate recognition, designed in consultation with each donor, is part of each gift that creates a named fund. Additionally, lifetime endowment gifts of $25,000 and above are permanently recognized on the Endowment Wall in the Allen Center atrium.