NMSU - Department of Physics Endowments

Endowment Funds

Recently there has been a significant increase in the endowment funds in the Department of Physics, which are administered by the University Foundation. Our department is extremely grateful to our alumni, friends, and former faculty members who have so generously established or contributed to these funds.

Our endowments and their uses are the following:

For graduate fellowships: the George W. Gardiner Fund, the Albert and
Mabel Burris Fund, and the general Physics Department Fund.
For financial aid to undergraduates: the H. Bartell and Doris Williams Memorial Fund and the Hugo Bezdek Fund.
For instructional laboratory equipment: the Physics Department Laboratory Equipment Fund.
For lecture demonstration equipment: the Horace Coburn Physics Lecture Equipment Fund.
Gilbert L. and Dolores C. Cano Endowed Physics Scholarship.
For undergraduate study: the Leon J. and Barbara W. Radzmieski Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship.
For awards given to outstanding students in freshman and sophomore laboratory courses: the Marc Miller-Velma McClellan Fund.
For supplementary support of the activities of outstanding faculty members: the George W. Gardiner Professorship Fund
For general use of the Physics Department: the Albert and Mabel Burris Endowment Fund.
For campus visits and public talks by outstanding persons: the George W. Gardiner Memorial Lecture Fund.

While gifts to these are very gratifying and important to the successful operation of the department, we are always in need of funds and we can always find a good use for them.

If any of you feel in a generous mood and would like to contribute to any of these funds, or just to send a gift, you can feel sure that it will be greatly welcomed. If you should feel in a particularly generous mood and would like to establish an endowment of your own (minimum $10,000, by University Foundation rules), we would be eternally grateful, since an endowment, like diamonds, is forever. If you would like to make a contribution please see our Gift Form.