Named Endowment Opportunities start at $100,000. For more information, please call Barbra Weir at (626) 395-3225.

Professorial Chair

A named professorial chair is the highest recognition that an institution of higher learning bestows on its faculty. Such endowments provide Caltech much flexibility in offering competitive salaries and well-equipped research and teaching facilities.

Visiting Professorship

The availability of endowed funds for visiting professorships enables Caltech to invite distinguished educators and scientists to the faculty for a limited time without an impact on the Institute’s operating budget.

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Postdoctoral training has become an essential final step in the education of young scientists, and these fellowships provide resources for the Institute to support its vital community of postdoctoral scholars.

Graduate Fellowship

Endowed graduate fellowships enable Caltech to recruit exceptional graduate students even when fluctuations in the economy and political environment affect other sources of funding.

Faculty Start-up Fund

Endowment for faculty start-ups provides vital funds to seed research, renovate laboratory space, and purchase equipment for new members to Caltech ’s faculty.

Undergraduate Scholarship

Resources for undergraduate scholarship help the Institute attract top students from diverse backgrounds and permit them to graduate without crippling debt, so that they are able to attend graduate school or pursue a range of career opportunities.

Discovery Fund

Discovery Funds help Caltech stay competitive by providing resources for new research opportunities that might not otherwise be pursued simply because of lack of funding.

President’s Fund

The President’s Fund endowment pool supports ongoing collaborations between Caltech faculty and JPL scientists.

SURF

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) funds are used to support research projects initiated by undergraduates, which are invaluable experiences in young Caltech students ’ academic careers.

Faculty Reinvention Fund

Faculty Reinvention Funds enable faculty to change directions in their research, which is an important part of the renewal process in academic life.

Lectureship

Such funds provide resources to support a periodic lecture on campus by a visiting speaker who is distinguished in the designated field.