Growth in scholarship funding

The Rollins School of Public Health is grateful to four very generous couples who have established new endowments to support outstanding students. Their gifts will be matched by RSPH though a program established by Dean James Curran using income from unrestricted endowments. Gifts ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 are matched on a one-to-one basis, enabling donors to create a scholarship that will exist in perpetuity.

Eugene and Rose Gangarosa established the first global field experience endowment in 1990 and later endowed two chairs in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH). Their most recent gift funded the Eugene J. and Rose S. Gangarosa Scholarship for Global Safe WASH. This fund will be used to recruit the most outstanding students to the program.

“Gene and Rose’s support of our WASH program has been transformative,” says Christine Moe, Eugene J. Gangarosa Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation and director of the Center for Global Safe WASH. “This scholarship will allow us to be competitive in recruiting the brightest WASH students.”

Longtime Rollins Dean’s Council member Nalini Saligram and her husband,