Your support is critical to the ongoing success of the Geoscience department. Please consider giving in one of the many named funds. Your contributions go directly to support student research and scholarship, as well as to facilities, and research equipment.
Online Giving
The University of Wisconsin Foundation is the official fund-raising and gift-receiving organization for the University of Wisconsin–Madison where most Geoscience funds reside. Learn about planned giving. The Terra Fund is our newest opportunity for giving, and helps pay for field, laboratory, and conference-related student expenses that are critical to our research and educational mission.
Giving via U.S. Mail
If you prefer to send a gift through the mail, download the Geoscience Gift Giving Guide (PDF) and mail it to:
The Department of Geoscience, 1215 W. Dayton St., Madison WI 53706;
or to
UW Foundation, U.S. Bank Lockbox, Box 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807
Other Geoscience Funding Opportunities
Department-wide Funds
James D. and Stella M. Robertson Graduate Fellowship Fund, 132420001
James J. and Dorothy T. Hanks Memorial Fund in Geology (Best Geophysics Student Award), 132424984
Jay C. Nania Endowed Graduate Support Fund (graduate student support), 132427782
L.R. Laudon Geology and Geophysics Scholarship Fund (Outstanding Junior Major Award), 132427740
Mark and Carol Ann Solien Fund (graduate student support), 132426762
Paull Family Undergraduate Scholarship Fund in Geology and Geophysics, 132421408
Sharon Meinholz Graduate Student Fund (student travel support), 112424096
Shelburne Research Assistantship Fund (graduate student support), 112424782
Tyler-Berg Teaching Assistant Fund in Geology and Geophysics (Outstanding TA Award), 132425200
Area Group Funds
Jane and Clarence Clay Geophysics Fund, 132427751
Charles Kenneth Leith Fund (structure), 132422383
Eugene N. Cameron Scholarship Fund (economic geology, minerology, petrology, geochem.), 132422228
George J. Verville Award Fund in Geology and Geophysics (paleontology), 132423014
George P. Woollard-Sigmund I. Hammer Memorial Fund in Geology & Geophysics (geophysics), 132425140
Hydrogeology Research Fund, 112424780
Lewis Cline, Lloyd Pray, and Robert Dott Sedimentary Geology Field Fund, 132423180
Lloyd C. Pray and J. Campbell Craddock Fund (sed/structure, graduate student support), 132426320
Paleontology Program Fund in Geology, 112420014
Quaternary Geology and Glaciology Fund – 112420004
Sturges “Bull” W. Bailey Scholarship Fund (minerology and petrology), 112422998