Graduate College of Marine Studies

Dean: Carolyn A. Thoroughgood

Director of development: Barbara Conklin Teter

(302) 831-8379, [bcteter@udel.edu]  

Campaign for Delaware goal: $5.7 million

Gifts and commitments as of Aug. 1: $6.73 million

Outstanding needs:

The College must attract the most talented graduate scholars from around the world to meet its goal of educating well-rounded scientists and policy specialists who have the broad vision and interdisciplinary backgrounds necessary to address the sweeping, interrelated problems that face marine and coastal environments. To recruit such scholars, the College has identified the need to establish a $500,000 endowed fellowship fund, which will support 10 graduate fellowships at $50,000 each.

Within the next five years, the College also must replace its current research vessel, the Cape Henlopen, which has been in continuous service since 1976. The new vessel will serve the research needs of all disciplines in oceanography and will be capable of operating in all seasons on a 24-hour-a-day basis.

Construction is expected to begin in mid-2004, with delivery of the new ship at the end of 2005. After a short transition in 2006, the new vessel will begin service, and the Cape Henlopen will be retired. It will be necessary to raise between $8 million and $10 million to accomplish this project.

Recent examples of generous donors making a difference in the College:

• An endowment has been created through the generosity of the Unidel Foundation to support the E.I. du Pont Professorship of Marine Biochemistry and Biophysics, which is held by John S. Boyer.
  
  
• In addition, John Boyer and his wife, Jean, have established an endowed fund in support of a professor's meritorious research.
  
  
• Several donors have helped to enhance the Lewes campus, including gifts to create garden areas furnished with benches overlooking the water.
  
  
• Proceeds of a life insurance policy from Mrs. Hazel Smith contributed $50,000 to the College.
  
  
• Through the generosity of the Sharp family and the Sharp Foundation, $1 million has been given as an unrestricted gift to the College.
  
  
• The Center for the Study of Marine Policy received a generous pledge of $300,000 from Gerard J. Mangone. This gift will allow the College to endow the program and rename the center as the Gerard J. Mangone Marine Policy Center. Anyone who is interested in helping to support this project to recognize and honor Mangone's continuing commitment to the College and the larger community should contact the University Development Office.