Thank you for making Giving Tuesday a success!
This year, hundreds of alumni, parents, students, and friends united to raise vital support for BU. From scholarships and research to campus life and community impact, your generosity strengthens the BU community in profound ways.
Missed Giving Tuesday? You can still join in!
The campaign site remains open through Sunday, December 7, for late gifts, so there’s still time to make your gift.
Thank you again for your support!
At this moment of opportunity, Boston University seeks significant support for our research enterprise. Your gifts will support the current and future scholars who advance knowledge and discovery at Boston University and those who benefit from their important work.
Highlighted Funds
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
By making a gift to our Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), you can expand student access to funded, faculty-mentored research experiences across the University.
UROP students complete scientific or scholarly projects that lead to the production of new knowledge, increase problem-solving capabilities, and generate original theory and interpretation. UROP also plays a key role in the University’s broader efforts to support career development.
Today, Boston University cannot fund about a third of applicants who are qualified and deserving of funding.
The Future Scholars Fund
PhD students are at the heart of Boston University’s excellence. They drive original research, important discoveries, and the generation of new knowledge. Just as important, they inspire and mentor undergraduates. At scale, robust investments in graduate students promote innovation and economic growth.
Boston University can sustain its own research programs and help build a globally competitive research workforce by expanding funding for PhD fellowships. Gifts of any size to the Future Scholars Fund will be spent at the discretion of the University Provost to award fellowships across the University.
The Research Futures Fund
Convergent research means integrating and blending methods, approaches, and perspectives from multiple disciplines—from the sciences, engineering, and medicine to public policy and business—to create new frameworks or fields of study in the interest of addressing complex societal challenges. Boston University researchers who work in this way have already driven breakthroughs in brain health, synthetic biology, neurophotonics, climate science, and AI.
Donors interested in helping to solve complex societal problems can give to the Research Futures Fund. All gifts will be used as seed funding for new convergent research projects at BU. These awards will help faculty teams launch their efforts and position themselves for future foundation and federal funding.
You Are Why: An advocacy and fundraising campaign
You Are Why is focused on how Boston University’s research has a positive impact on people’s everyday lives and society at large. Gifts from alumni, parents, and friends will support the current and future scholars who advance knowledge and discovery at Boston University and those who benefit from their important work.
Those who give through the You Are Why highlighted funds:
- Help Boston University by further positioning it as a global leader in research, and especially convergent research
- Help faculty and students through direct financial support for research
- Help our city and nation by preparing the future research workforce
- Help society with cures, discoveries, and interventions driven by research
Learn more about You Are Why, our ongoing campaign to support research.
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