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Kvevri Wine, Mole Rats and Cryptocurrency: Avinger Impact Fund Winners Bring Big Ideas to LifeÂ
The Avinger Impact Fund allows ºÚÁÏÉçÇø students with entrepreneurial aspirations to turn their ideas into action. Learn more about this year’s three recipients.
‘In Honor of Our Teammates’: Sheridan Brothers Pledge Support to New Facilities
Mike Sheridan ’79 and Pat Sheridan ’81 back ºÚÁÏÉçÇø athletics with support for transformative athletics facilities project. Learn more.
Leading with Love: Fund Honors Friend and Mentor Ruth Pittard
Students looked to Ruth Pittard for straight talk, guidance and support for almost three decades. Now, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø alums have established the Ruth Pittard Fund for Love in Action to recognize and perpetuate her good work. Learn more.
Friendship Transcends Politics, Paves Way for First-Generation Wildcat
Gift in honor of accomplished politician celebrated for bipartisan successes to benefit ºÚÁÏÉçÇø students. Find out more.
Transformational Gift Inspired by Alum’s Scholar-Athlete Experience
Scholar-athletes and campus community to benefit from John ’82 and Jan Bazos gift toward $45 million athletics facilities project. Learn more.
Alumni and Foundation Support Create Trio of Endowed Professorships
New endowed professorships enhance college’s efforts to recruit and retain the highest quality faculty.
Athletes’ Mental Health and Performance Motivate $3 Million Gift
A gift to ºÚÁÏÉçÇø prioritizes mental well-being for athletes in all 21 Division I sports and creates specialized resources for both basketball programs. Find out more.
Love of Art Takes Root, Grows Into Beautiful Tribute to Professor Emeritus
A piece by Chinese sculptor Zhan Wang will be added to the college’s permanent art collection in honor of Professor Emeritus of English Gill Holland. Find out more.
Williamsons Move Davidson Forward With $1 Million Athletics Gift
Find out more about a gift that will help fuel a multi-million-dollar project to overhaul and enhance ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s athletics facilities.
Athletics Done Right - The Next Step: ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Announces Plans for New Facilities
Learn more about large-scale plans to expand and enhance athletics facilities for the benefit of scholar-athletes, the campus community and Wildcat fans.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry Investment Unlocks Opportunity, Promotes Equity in Women’s Sports
Find out more about Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s new scholarship initiative in support of women’s athletics at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø.
Alums Contribute to Expansion of Africana Studies Department
One of the college’s youngest departments gets a boost from class of 1961 alums.
Philanthropic Support of Davidson Increases this Fiscal Year
The ºÚÁÏÉçÇø community raised more than $58 million this fiscal year, an increase of 3.4 percent over the past year, to strengthen the college’s capacity to assist students in developing the skills and character to lead and serve.
$4 Million Gift to Help Prepare ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Students for Careers in an Evolving Workplace
Learn more about how the newly named Matthews Center will help ºÚÁÏÉçÇø students explore their interests, prepare for the constantly evolving workplace and connect with potential employers.
Eat. Learn. Play. Wildcats.: Stephen and Ayesha Curry Support Davidson Student Success Through Lula Bell’s Resource Center
Learn more about how Stephen and Ayesha Curry, founders of the Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, are helping ºÚÁÏÉçÇø to meet students’ needs.
#AllinforDavidson Celebrates Community, Exceeds 3,600 Donors in Single Day
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s single-day #AllinforDavidson giving challenge breaks record. Donors contributed from every state in the Union.
Fund for Students Honors Truly Civil Public Servant Tony Snow '77
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø alumnus Tony Snow became a distinct voice in the national media and a respected figure in the White House. Now, a professional development fund for students honors his life and unmatched work ethic.
Tech Impact Fund to Pair Businesses With Students Looking for Paid Hands-on Experience
Through a new fund created by ºÚÁÏÉçÇø alumna Whitney A. White, the Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will match students with businesses for portfolio-building work opportunities. The Tech Impact Fund will provide paid student talent at no cost to women-owned and underrepresented minority-owned businesses.
Young Artist Charts Course as Inaugural Malú Alvarez Visual Art Scholar
Julia Matthiesen ’24 is the inaugural recipient of the Malú Alvarez Visual Art Scholarship, created by artist and alumna Malú Alvarez ’02. In addition to art, Matthiesen is interested in computer science and is excited about the ways her interests will mesh at Davidson.
