Leadership-Development Awards Summary
Development Awards
In 1988, the foundation established the Development Awards program
as the first in a series of initiatives to create and enhance educational
programs in biomedical engineering.
Awards of up to $5 million were made to help establish major centers
of excellence in biomedical engineering education.
To qualify for funding, applicants must have already had in place
formal research training opportunities for engineering students.
Applicant institutions that lacked a biomedical engineering department
were encouraged to create one.
Development Awards were expected to have a national impact on the
field and required that applicant institutions make a substantial
commitment to the supported program. Supported institutions were
able to enhance or establish a department or degree-granting program,
support new faculty, acquire new research and teaching space, and
recruit students.
The foundation made 19 Development Awards totaling more than $74
million.
Leadership Awards
In 1996, the foundation announced its second major initiative for
improving biomedical engineering education, the Leadership Awards.
The program set no limit on the amount of funding available for
each grant, but asked that requests be reasonable and required that
applicant institutions match the requested amount at least dollar
for dollar.
The foundation made Leadership Awards to a few selected institutions
that had already attained national stature and presented exciting
and convincing plans to solidify and further enhance their leadership
positions.
Three awards were made totaling $49 million.
Leadership-Development and Special Awards
In 1999, the Leadership Awards and Development Awards programs
merged, resulting in a series of Leadership-Development Awards to
support both programs and facilities. Special Awards were also made
primarily for major building construction.
These infrastructure grants stimulated the creation of new departments
and programs across the United States and supported the construction
of permanent facilities for biomedical engineering. Faculty were
hired, students recruited, and curricula developed.
The foundation's infrastructure grants were made during a decade
in which the number of academic departments in biomedical engineeing
more than doubled, from 42 to more than 100. Twenty-seven institutions
received major support from The Whitaker Foundation.
Three Leadership-Development awards were made totaling $42 million.
The foundation made 11 Special Awards for building construction
and renovation.
Institutions supported by these programs:
Leadership Awards:
Boston University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California, San Diego
Leadership-Development Awards:
Georgia Tech
University of California, Davis
University of Pennsylvania
Development Awards:
Arizona State University
Case Western Reserve University
Columbia University
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rice University
State University of New York at Stony Brook
University of California, Irvine
University of California, San Diego
Universtiy of Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Texas at Austin
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Washington University
Special Awards (Building Construction/Renovation):
Columbia University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
Rice University
Rutgers University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Rochester
University of Virginia
University of Texas, Austin
University of Washington
Washington University
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