The Geology Endowment Fund was created in 1978 and supports three named professorships—The E. B. Branson Professorship, the Raymond E. Peck Professorship, and the Raymond Ethington Professorship. In addition, the fund generally supports the research and teaching efforts of the department. We are currently prioritizing fund-raising for the research and teaching portion of the distribution of the Geology Endowment Fund because of the flexibility it gives us in meeting department needs.

The Geology Alumni Endowment Fund was specifically created in 2018 to support and strengthen the faculty part of these two pillars, to enable the Department of Geological Sciences to attract & retain the finest faculty, and especially to ensure the success of professors newly recruited to the Department.

Both the Department and the Geology Development Board see the Geology Alumni Endowment Fund offering an effective way to ensure long-term success for Mizzou’s Department of Geological Sciences, to ensure it has the capability to provide cutting-edge education for students, and for its faculty to perform first-class research in many areas of the earth science discipline.

The distribution from the Geology Alumni Endowment Fund is now being used to support a two-year award for the program development of junior faculty.  Although the fund has reached its goal of $1 million in the corpus, we continue to welcome donations to the corpus to enable the distribution to grow to keep pace with rising program costs.

Interested in another Geology fund? In the giving form, select Explore University Funds, select Other and follow the prompts to enter the fund name and finalize your gift.