College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

This is it folks! - the final hours of the 2023 (603) Challenge

Areas that still need your support to meet their area challenge = Civil & Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, and UNH Tech Camp!

Callie has joined the Dogs of CEPS race from Environmental Engineering to support her pal Tucker in Civil Engineering, but they need your help to take the crown! Which of these pups will lead the pack?

Find out this and more when the challenge concludes, but make your gift before midnight, because it's still anyone's game!

It’s the last day of the 603 Challenge and that means new donors get a match! The Grand Finale Bonus Challenge is an all-time high of $90,000 that will be split evenly among all new donors who give today. 

Your gift can also help propel an area of CEPS closer toward their donor goal and unlock additional bonus funds! Here are some areas that could use a little extra push to reach their goals: 

Chemical and Bioengineering – these funds help ensure all eligible students receive some type of scholarship support as well as provide for DEI initiatives in the department 

Mathematics and Statistics – uses funds to provide scholarship support to students, and likely will support the new Mathematics Center (MaC) 

CEPS Tech Camp – gifts support participation for middle and high school kids to take part in a STEM learning summer camp 

All this support for Earth Sciences is giving Ollie the zoomies! And who can blame him? Proceeds from the Earth Sciences gift fund allow students to apply for project and research funding in the spring as well as support graduate student research in the summer. These important opportunities improve our understanding of the Earth, and the processes that affect it, while providing students with valuable experience. 

By giving to Earth Sciences you can help them reach their goal of 25 donors and unlock an additional $10,000 in bonus funds! 

The NH Numbers Bonus Challenge (where the first 1,000 donors who make a gift with 6, 0, and 3 in the total get a 50 bonus added to their gift) is the perfect time to support student groups at CEPS. 

These groups benefit greatly from expanded funding provided by the challenge, and always rally their members to claim the bonus! 

Learn more about what student organizations provide for our students in our Celebrating Community with CEPS day video!

The excitement of UNH’s flagship fundraising event provides the perfect backdrop to share a new philanthropic initiative in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS). We are so excited to announce that alumni, parents, and friends can now directly support one of our most important populations: Graduate Students.

The CEPS Graduate Student Support Fund provides immediate funding for graduate students across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. 

Increasing financial support will ensure that our graduate students have the necessary resources to fulfill their critically important roles as researchers, teaching assistants, and mentors.

To jumpstart this initiative, Dean Gruden has offered to match dollar-for-dollar the first $3,000 in gifts to this fund. Give today at https://www.givecampus.com/cam... to show your support for our graduate students!

College students aren’t the only STEM studiers here in CEPS. UNH Tech Camp uses gifts to fund participation for middle and high school kids attending summer camp at the college. In Tech Camp, these eager learners are inspired through collaborative, hands-on activities, bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics to life.

In the past, donor support has helped make it possible for young STEM learners to attend the camp free of charge. Today, you can help Tech Camp reach their goal of 20 donors and unlock an additional $5,000!

Will you help us reach 60 SWE donors and unlock $1,200?

The (603) Challenge is heating up and there are so many great areas of CEPS for our donors to give to, like the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center.

Gifts to the Olson Center will help them hire more student interns, who will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of industry projects. It will also allow them to take on more independent projects that will better the world.

The center has put together tons of fantastic content and created a great (603) Challenge webpage. You can learn more about the transformative things happening at the Olson Center and how giving can help this important program both on their website, and in this video produced by their hardworking team:

OlsonCenter603Challenge.mp4

The (603) Challenge is officially underway – and we’re kicking off voting in our annual ‘Dogs of CEPS’ competition. Here’s the deal: we’ve picked dog mascots across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) and your gift to your favorite area (or dog) is your vote for #1.

The winning area will fetch $1,125 in additional funding from Julie Palais ’78, polar glaciologist, and author of Sathi: The Street Dog from Kathmandu, Nepal.

Keep an eye on your email for a fun bio of your department's dog (an special area challenge!) and cast your vote/gift now to take advantage of $300,000 of matching funds, matching up to $300 per donor until funds run out. Let’s do this CEPS!