Donate to the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Consider engaging with these UW Foundation campaigns designed to support key programs within the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences. Student scholarships, outreach programming and departmental professorships are some of our leading campaigns. Your donation to the department is so much more than a gift. We are grateful for our current donors and look forward to engaging with all alums, friends and family seeking to support the program’s mission.
Discretionary Giving
Food Science Fund
Aids the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences in its teaching, research and outreach roles. This fund is comprised of contributions and bequests from interested alumni and friends including corporations and foundations.
Nutritional Sciences Fund
Aids the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences in its teaching, research and outreach roles. This fund is comprised of contributions and bequests from interested alumni and friends including corporations and foundations.
Confectionery Education Endowment Fund
The Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences is at risk of losing the beloved ‘Candy School.’ The key purpose of this fund is to sustain and grow the 60+ year legacy of educating the confectionery industry into perpetuity. The CEE Fund will secure the future of these confectionery activities by funding part of a faculty member to manage the program and associated costs of equipment, supplies, travel, etc.
Dorothy J. Pringle Nutritional Sciences Fund
This fund provides support for undergraduates in dietetics and nontenure track faculty for travel and other educational expenses. Often, instructors have benefited from the Pringle Fund by attending meetings and purchasing technology they otherwise would not be able to. Dorothy J. Pringle was a professor emerit of nutritional sciences, the first director of the Coordinated Undergraduate Program and was the donor’s undergraduate advisor. Pringle was at the UW from 1949 until her retirement in 1985 and continued to be involved with the department until her passing at 97 in 2016.
Faculty Support
Elmer Martin Billings and Jean Hood Billings Professorship in Nutrition Fund
Supports the needs of the professorship, including but not limited to books, research assistants, travel and other enhancements of teaching and scholarly activity.
Lida A. Jamison Endowment Fund
Supports faculty startup funds for new professors. Established in 1994 with a gift from her estate, the Lida A. Jamison Nutritional Sciences Endowment Fund supports projects within the department. Using this fund, Brian Parks was able to support the purchase of a state-of-the-art animal body composition analyzer, a quantitative PCR machine and other biomedical laboratory equipment necessary to begin research. Adam Kuchnia was also able to utilize these funds to purchase cutting-edge imaging equipment needed to conduct his research in body composition and muscle metabolism.
Professor Robert L. Bradley Dairy Food Fund
This fund is to honor the impactful legacy of Robert L. Bradley by supporting department faculty working in areas related to dairy foods. The fund will be utilized by the department to provide a five-year faculty avert used to support teaching, research activities and expenses, and programs related to dairy science.
The Owen R. Fennema Professorship in Food Chemistry
The Owen R. Fennema Professorship in Food Science will recognize and support a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in teaching and research in food chemistry. The funds will be utilized by the department to give a five-year faculty award that provides resources to pursue research, attend professional development meetings, travel, support undergraduate research and hire graduate research assistants.
Student Support
A.E. Harper Graduate Program Fund
This fund provides support for nutrition and metabolism graduate students and programming. Alfred E. Harper led the founding of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and served as its first chair from 1968-1982. A native of Lethbridge, Alberta, Harper arrived on campus in 1949. He began research on amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, in the lab of biochemist Conrad Elvehjem.
Dr. Elmer H. Marth Graduate Student Scholarship in Food Microbiology
The Dr. Elmer H. Marth Graduate Student Scholarship in Food Microbiology provides financial support to graduate students who are seeking a Ph.D. in food microbiology in CALS. This fund is awarded on a competitive basis and is used to provide scholarships to graduate students.
Hellen M. Linkswiler Graduate Student Award Fund
Supports an annual scholarship to a student enrolled in the Masters of Science in Clinical Nutrition. The friends and colleagues of the late Hellen M. Linkswiler and the Department of Nutritional Sciences set up this fund. Linkswiler received her M.S. in foods and nutrition and her Ph.D. in nutrition and physiology from Madison. She was a professor of nutritional sciences at UW–Madison from 1960 until her retirement in 1981.
Karen Spector Scholarship in Dietetics Fund
Supports dietetics students who have demonstrated exceptional motivation and work ethic. Established by Dianne and Jerome Spector on February 19, 1988 in memory of their daughter, Karen Spector. This scholarship was created “to encourage and assist students in the department who have enthusiasm, creativity and imagination similar to their daughter Karen.” The recipient is someone who gives that extra measure of hard work making an impact on others and setting himself/herself apart from the crowd. The individual makes the world a better place because they do a bit more and reflect the attitude that one person could make a difference.