NH Business Review
‘Extraordinary’ donation to focus on ‘historically underrepresented students’
May 20, 2021
A $20 million gift from Dartmouth alumni Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe and her husband John Donohoe will be used to expand the college’s E.E. Just Program, named for a prominent African-American biologist who graduated from Dartmouth in 1907.
An alumni couple has given Dartmouth College $20 million to boost efforts to draw more under-represented groups to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to encourage more such faculty members early in their careers.
The gift is jump-starting a $60 million initiative to “to support diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM at Dartmouth through faculty diversity, student support, and community building efforts,” Dartmouth said in a news release Sunday evening.