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PHILANTHROPY

Sikorsky imageSikorsky and United Technologies Pledge $1 Million to UMD’s Clark School of Engineering
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., along with its parent company, United Technologies Corp., have pledged one million dollars to endow a fund to create the Igor Sikorsky Distinguished Professorship in Rotorcraft at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering.

UL Contributes $250K to UMD Fire Protection Engineering Legacy Campaign
UL (Underwriters Laboratories) will make a $250,000 investment in the University of Maryland’sDepartment of Fire Protection Engineering. The gift is the largest single donation in the department’s history and will support the Fire Protection Engineering Legacy Campaign for a professor of the practice.

Bequest of Alumna Frances Balfour Creates New Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering
A bequest of Frances Balfour (Ph.D., '82) establishes the Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering.

 

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