Naming opportunities
Are you drawn to the idea of establishing the lab in which the next
breakthrough in bioengineering takes place? How would you feel if your
name, or the name of a loved one, someday became associated with the
work of a Nobel laureate at MIT?
A named fellowship, research fund, or classroom is a lasting gift to
the Institute that permanently associates the name of the donor—or
that of a family member, friend, colleague, or professor—with
MIT. Named gifts also offer donors the opportunity of connecting
with seminal events, at the Institute and around the world. They are
often the culmination of a life-long commitment to philanthropy.
Naming opportunities are available at many levels of giving; from $50,000
to establish and partially fund a named undergraduate scholarship,
to $1 million to fully fund a graduate fellowship,
to several million dollars for a building project.
If you are interested in pursuing a naming opportunity, please contact
us.
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Saying thanks
David Thompson ’76 establishes a scholarship to honor his parents
David Thompson ’76 still recalls the starry night when he and
his dad spotted Sputnik 2 from their backyard. Though he was only three
at the time, the encounter sparked a lifelong passion for spacecraft
and rockets.
Thompson’s recent gift of $125,000, which supports
scholarships for students in aeronautics and astronautics, ensures that
other young people who share his passion will be able to realize their
dreams. The gift, given with Thompson’s wife, Catherine, and sister,
Carol (MIT ’82, also in aero-astro), honors Thompson’s parents,
Robert and Nancy—whose involvement in his first science projects
gave Thompson the courage to dream big—by establishing the Robert
H. and Nancy W. Thompson Scholarship Fund at MIT.
Thompson earned an MIT degree in aeronautics and astronautics in 1976,
a master’s in aeronautics in 1977 from California Institute of
Technology, and an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1981. In 1982, he co-founded
Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia, an industry leader
in developing and manufacturing small, affordable rockets and satellites.
“If I look back over my life, the major influences that shaped
my life are my parents and MIT. This gift says thanks to both. I hope
the scholarship will inspire MIT kids to do great things for the space
industry and for the country.”
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