GIVING

• Giving - because you are asked
• Giving - because you want to do something special for the community
• Giving - because you want to honor a living hero or provide a memorial to a loved one
• Giving - because you believe in the mission of the group and want to help them
• Giving - because you want to be more involved in the immediate workings of the organization
• Giving—because you want to provide a beacon to the future for necessary, exciting, dramatic, powerful, useful accomplishments for society

Giving - what better way than by a gift to support, encourage and honor students who will become the scientists of tomorrow—the knowledge generators of the future. These outstanding individuals are the very ones who will find the cure to cancer, put an end to diabetes, find the genetic means of controlling heart disease, solve the mystery of Alzheimer’s, discover the pharmaceutical therapy that helps give a child normal brain functions. The students whose lives you will touch with your help are the very students charged with the quest to find solutions to our most critical health concerns.

While over 40 GSBS student award winners receive monetary support and recognition, there are many other exemplary students in a vast number of biomedical sciences areas whose work is waiting to be awarded WHEN FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE.

To play a part in helping to increase this funding you may give in several ways:

• The annual capital campaign through the Dean’s Fall Letter. Since the year 2000 much of this support was used to recruit top undergraduates to the GSBS. Let us know if you want to be put on the list to receive this letter. Contact Linda.M.Carter@uth.tmc.edu
• Individual giving may be designated to support a student or professor in a particular area of research or health concern.
• A named endowed scholarship (named for yourself, favorite family member, or scientist, for example) may be created with as little as $25,000; a fellowship for $50,000.
• To fund an endowed professorship, for instance, it takes $100,000—but this and the others may be paid out over a five-year period. A distinguished professorship is named with a $250,000 endowment and approved by the Texas Board of Regents.

Rather than establishing a named scholarship or professorship you may wish to give to an existing program. Those in place include:

• Dean's Excellence Fund. Supports programming at the discretion of the Dean
• Student Assistance Fund. Gives loans to students in time of need

GSBS scholarship, fellowship and professorships currently provided by generous private gifts:

Andrew Sowell-Wade Huggins Endowed Scholarships in Cancer Research
American Legion Auxiliary Fellowships in Cancer Research
Aaron M. Blanchard Research Award
R. W. Butcher Endowed Achievement Award
Harry S. & Isabel C. Cameron Foundation Fellowship in Alzheimer’s or Cardiovascular Disease Research
Cancer Answers Inc./Sylvan Rodriguez Scholarship in Cancer Research
City Federation of Women's Clubs Endowed Scholarship in the Biomedical Sciences
Cullen Trust for Higher Education M.D./Ph.D. Fellowship
Faculty/Alumni Merit Scholarships
Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship
T. C. Hsu Memorial Scholarship
Robert & Pearl Knox Charitable Foundation Scholarship
The Lummis Fellowship in the Biomedical Sciences
Thomas S. Matney Endowed Professorship in Genetics or Environmental Sciences
John P. McGovern Annual Student Poster Awards
Michael Farley Moyers Endowed Medical Physics Travel Fund
Dee S. and Patricia Osborne Endowed Scholarship in Neurosciences
Presidents' Merit and Presidents' Research Scholarships
Schissler Foundation Fellowship in Cancer Research
Schissler Foundation Fellowships in the Genetics of Common Diseases
Sowell-Huggins Professorship and Graduate Fellowship in Cancer Research
Sam Taub and Beatrice Burton Endowed Fellowship
President James T. and Nancy Beamer Willerson Endowed Scholarship
Roberta M. and Jean M. Worsham Endowed Scholarship in Behavioral or Neurosciences

Thank you to all of our supporters—yours is the vision that will change the future! I am happy to answer any questions you may have about current giving, particular areas needing support, or estate planning. Please contact me at Linda.M.Carter@uth.tmc.edu or telephone (713) 500-9865.