Giving to Carolina Mathematics
Invest in Carolina Mathematics
State funds and tuition pay only part of the costs to recruit and retain the best faculty and graduate students and support the unique liberal-arts undergraduate programs that are the hallmarks of the Carolina experience. Private funds sustain and enhance these extraordinary opportunities for students and faculty.
Despite budget cuts, the Department of Mathematics continues to provide the best possible education for our undergraduate and graduate students. Each year, private support provides the funding that helps support Carolina's margin of excellence. Private giving is now more critical than ever.
We continue to welcome your gifts to Mathematics, either to our unrestricted fund that provides the Chair the flexibility to apply funding where it is needed most at any given time, or to support our existing fund-raising priorities.
The Lottie C. Wilson Scholarship Fund was established though the generous bequest of an alumna, Ms. Lottie C. Wilson.
Contributions to this fund support scholarship awards to graduate and undergraduate students whose major field of study is mathematics. Awards are made based on demonstrated academic merit.
The Robert Brown Gardner Memorial Fund recognizes the many significant contributions of Robert Brown Gardner (1939-1998), who was a member of the Department of Mathematics from 1971 until his death in 1998.
Graduate education was extremely important to Robert Gardner, and he offered many seminars that were in fact extra courses to train graduate students. The students responded with enthusiasm, and during his career he advised 13 Ph.D. and 18 Master's students. In addition, Gardner served a term as Director of Graduate Studies and was the cofounder, with Udo Simon of the Technische Universität Berlin, of an exchange program between UNC and TU Berlin that brought many graduate students and faculty from Berlin to Chapel Hill. His guidance and support had a deep influence on the German students who visited Chapel Hill, and some of them extended their stays at UNC.
Gardner was proud and supportive of all his students, both during graduate school and after graduation. His students followed many different careers from business to academia, and he made an effort to keep up with all of them. To honor his contributions to graduate education the Department of Mathematics created the Robert Brown Gardner Memorial Fund to support graduate students in Mathematics.
The Alfred T. Brauer Memorial Fund recognizes Alfred Brauer (1894-1985), who had a profound impact on the Department of Mathematics at Carolina. Born in Germany, he held a position at the University of Berlin. He fled the country in 1939, accepting Herman Weyl’s invitation to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He came to North Carolina in 1942, where he advised 20 doctoral students, teaching here until his retirement in 1966. During this time he founded the Mathematics and Physics Library, using his knowledge and expertise to establish a superb collection (now part of the University's Science Library Annex). Alfred Brauer was honored by the University with the award of a Kenan professorship in 1959, the Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in 1965 and an honorary doctor of legal letters degree in 1972. He also received numerous awards from outside the University, including the Oak Ridge Science Award and the G.W.F. Hegel Medal from the University of Berlin. The Brauer Fund was established in the Department of Mathematics on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Contributions to this fund support the Brauer Lectures in Mathematics given by distinguished senior research mathematicians annual awards to an undergraduate demonstrating the greatest ability and promise for achievement in the fields of number theory or algebra, and visiting faculty.
To make a gift via check, please note "Department of Mathematics" on the memo line and mail to:
Amanda C. Kuruc
The Arts and Sciences Foundation
134 East Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
For questions about creating scholarships and professorships, stock or estate gifts, specific programs, and suggestions on how you can support the Department of Mathematics, please contact:
Amanda C. Kuruc
Associate Director of Capital Gifts, Arts and Sciences Foundation
amanda.kuruc@unc.edu, 919-962-6358