Your Impact

Your Gifts in Action

• Bucknell Fund

  • Increased financial aid support, creating greater access to Bucknell for students.
  • Funded the development of new centers including the Dominguez Center for Data Science, the Perricelli-Gegnas Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and the Center for Access & Success, supporting their work to deliver the strongest academic experience to students.
  • Brought prominent leaders from various disciplines to campus to provide students with insight and expertise.
  • Upgraded facilities across campus, creating state-of-the-art spaces for student-athletes and apartment-style residence halls.

   

• ​College of Arts & Sciences

  • Students explored and researched the geology and biology of remote areas of the Outer Banks of North Carolina mapping fauna and flora variations and seeing how storms and sea level change are altering the environment.
  • Received support for students in multiple disciplines to engage in career-shaping experiences by sharing their research progress at professional meetings and conferences.
  • Creative arts students shared their work at the Kennedy Center American Theatre College Festival, the United States Institute for Theatrical Technology, and the Association of Writers and Writing Program conference.

   

• College of Engineering

  • Funded a new student success coach position. This position provides holistic support to students across many areas, including academics, skill development and connecting with resources across the college and university.
  • Supported student travel to conferences, where many students secured internships and jobs through networking opportunities. Approximately 200 students traveled to 30 destinations.
  • Expanded summer research opportunities available for students with newer faculty. Some examples include designing a better control network, analyzing the trustworthiness of behavioral biometric systems and advancing the production of the biodegradable bioplastic PHB.

   

• Freeman College of Management

  • Helped our students secure internships in a variety of U.S. cities as well as abroad in Dublin and Singapore.
  • Provided research opportunities for students and faculty to work together and independently on a variety of subjects.

   

• President's Fund

  • Funded Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets which offered a week of intensive reading, writing and discussion for a select cohort of promising undergraduate poets, guided by established faculty poets.
  • Workshop expenses facilitated by the OpEd Project, an organization that works to diversify public discourse by amplifying underrepresented voices.
  • Supported Chamber Music Collective Festival where students were invited to campus and were coached and performed on period instruments.
  • Continued to fund the Inside-out Prison Exchange program which facilitates dialogue and education through courses held inside prison.
  • Provided funds for The Right to Be (Seen) project, a three-day campus event offering participants to embrace interdisciplinary perspectives.

   

• Bison Club

  • Enhanced operating budgets for nutrition, team travel, recruiting, strength and conditioning, and leadership development for 27 Division I teams.
  • Provided resources for spring break training trips to prepare spring sport student-athletes for upcoming seasons.
  • Contributed nearly $4 million toward the Bucknell Athletics & Recreation Drive for Five.
  • Highlighted championship excellence through postseason travel and the purchase of championship rings.
  • Funded student-athlete enhancement activities, including summer training, per diem meals and Alston Awards.