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- A Gift Inspired by the Common Good
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- Gift Given in Honor and Memory of Robert de Sherbinin
- Artists Fund Provides Financial Resources for Studio Art Students
- Professorships Keep Bowdoin in Top Tier
- Family Scholarship Fund Covers Four Years of Tuition for a Student
- New Fund Supports Student Research
New Fund Supports Student Research
To honor their support of Bowdoin’s academic program and the unique research opportunities available to students, Matt and Marcia Kaufman established the Matthew R. Kaufman and Marcia A. Kaufman Family Fund to support research awards to the College’s undergraduates. Preference will be given to students conducting research with faculty over the course of the academic year.
Matt was a biology and chemistry double major at Bowdoin and graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors in 1972, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He fondly remembers the close working relationship which he had with Tom Settlemire as a Surdna Fellow and the opportunity to pursue his scientific interests in research in his junior and senior years at Bowdoin. He was a recipient of a number of other undergraduate research awards. Now an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical oncologist at Mount Auburn Hospital, Matt earned his MD from Boston University’s Medical School in 1976.
Marcia earned her MBA from Boston University and is an analyst with Hurwitz Associates, a research and consulting firm for information technology businesses.
Their daughter, Sara, of the Class of 2002, graduated with a double major in economics and Spanish, and is now the Associate Director of the Gifted and Talented Program in the Office of Policy for New York’s Department of Education. She earned an MPA from Columbia in May 2007.