Faculty Support

Endowed faculty awards honor, encourage, and support Stanford Engineering's most important assets: the teachers and researchers whose brilliant minds and commitment to technological innovation are at the center of our mission.

Professorships
A chaired professorship is the most significant honor the university can offer to faculty. Holders of endowed chairs represent the most distinguished scholars of their generation. Those selected for a chair combine brilliant scholarship, inspirational teaching, and leadership service to the school and university. A gift of $2.5 million will be matched with $1.5 million by the University, resulting in a $4 million endowment that will support new chairs in selected priority departments.

Faculty Scholar Funds
Endowed Faculty Scholar Funds recognize rising stars and support newly tenured faculty for periods of up to three years. Used to help further faculty research and teaching in areas of critical importance in the school, these funds assist gifted scholars as they pursue careers at Stanford. Faculty Scholar Funds strengthen our future, helping the university encourage and retain the most talented faculty in the country. A gift of $1 million will be matched equally by the dean of the School of Engineering, resulting in a $2 million endowment that will generate income to support Faculty Scholars in perpetuity.

To find out more, please contact a member of our development team.