Impact Report - Advancement Resources

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks
A Celebration of Your Impact
Contents
Introduction1-2
Lifetime giving snapshot chart
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Gift impact
4-10
Department of Geoscience
4-6
Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
7-8
College of Letters & Science Dean’s Priorities
9-10
Thank you
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Photo credits: page 2 - Wisconsin Alumni Association; page 6 - University Communications/Jeff Milller; page 11 - University Communications/Bryce Richter
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Contents
Introduction1–2
Lifetime Giving Snapshot
3
Gift Impact
4–10
Department of Geoscience
4–6
Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
7–8
College of Letters & Science Dean’s Priorities
9–10
Thank You
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Photo credits: pages 1, 2 & 8: Wisconsin Alumni Association; page 5: ???; page 6: University Communications/Jeff Milller;
page 7: University Communications; page 11: University Communications/Bryce Richter
Introduction
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A Story of Badger Pride
Few alumni can claim the extent of devoted UW-Madison volunteer involvement and
Badger pride that Ken and Linda Ciriacks can. Ken, your bachelor’s degree in geology
from the UW in 1958 was put to good use during your 32-year career at Amoco
Corporation, leading exploration activities around the world. You also helped Badgers
to get jobs as part of Amoco’s corporate recruiting team.
You became more involved with the UW when you helped establish the Department
of Geology and Geophysics Alumni Council in 1991. (It’s now known as the Department of
Geoscience Board of Visitors.) Your active service lasted until June 2014, when you stepped
into the role of senior adviser. You were board cochair in 1997 and a key fundraiser for the
geology building expansion. Your board leadership spanned the terms of nine department
chairs: Herb Wang, Philip Brown, John Valley, Mary Anderson, Clark Johnson, Jean Bahr,
Clifford Thurber, Brad Singer, and Harold Tobin. In 1999, the department recognized your
service and career with a Geology Distinguished Alumni Award.
Your love of all things UW makes you an ideal advocate for Badgers everywhere, and Paula
Bonner recruited you to join the Wisconsin Alumni Association Board of Directors in 2000.
After your initial term ended, you stepped away for a few years but rejoined the board in
2009. You served until WAA’s merger with the UW Foundation in July 2014. During your
service, you played a major role in raising funds for the Alumni Park project. It was an
honor to recognize you with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2002 for your professional
achievements and contributions to the UW.
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Introduction continued
The College of Letters & Science also benefits from your loyalty. Dean Phillip Certain
invited you to join the college’s board of visitors in 2003, and since then, you have served
under Deans Gary Sandefur and John Karl Scholz.
You brought your campus advisory board insight to the Department of Astronomy Board
of Visitors in 2006. You served under department chairs Eric Wilcots, Robert Mathieu,
Jay Gallagher, and Ellen Zweibel and moved into the role of senior adviser in 2014.
Ken and Linda, you are also amazingly enthusiastic participants on WAA’s athletic and
educational travel programs. With 18 trips to destinations around the world, you are
among the university’s most frequent alumni travelers, helping to build connections with
new UW friends.
Our thanks for contributing your incredible expertise, philanthropy, and “U-Rah-Rah” for
more than two decades. We are especially grateful to Linda, a dedicated honorary Badger.
You are both essential partners in sustaining the extraordinary quality of the UW in a
competitive higher education market.
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Lifetime Giving Snapshot
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Impact Summary
Total Commitment
Department of Geoscience
$358,745.54
Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship $122,900.00
Geoscience Building Fund
$70,000.00
Geoscience Student Field Experience Fund
$51,000.00
Jay C. Nania Endowed Graduate Support Fund
$50,000.00
Geology Museum
$30,221.35
Department of Geoscience Fund
$28,808.19
Robert M. and Ramona A. Sneider Geology Museum Fund
$4,816.00
Geology of the Ice Age Trail Fund
$1,000.00
Wisconsin Alumni Association
$106,350.00
Alumni Park WAA 150th Anniversary Fund
$55,000.00
Wisconsin Alumni Association Endowment Fund
$51,000.00
WAA: Chicago Chapter Regional Scholarship Funds
$350.00
Wisconsin Alumni Association Great People Scholarship
$150.00
College of Letters & Science
Ciriacks Letters & Science Faculty Fellows Fund
$74,270.83
$50,000.00
Phillip R. Certain Fund
$9,770.83
College of Letters & Science Annual Fund
$9,500.00
Gary Sandefur Tribute Fund
$5,000.00
Letters & Science Board of Visitors Great People Scholarship Fund
$5,000.00
Department of Astronomy
Astronomy Department Strategic Support Fund
Department of Astronomy
Other
UW Marching Band
$67,191.75
$50,000.00
$17,191.75
$34,163.09
$10,000.00
Zoology Museum Endowment
$6,513.09
Irving Shain Chemistry Colloquium Series Fund
$5,000.00
School of Human Ecology Annual Fund
$5,000.00
Class of 1958 Union Terrace Fund
$2,500.00
TOTAL IMPACT$640,721.21
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Gift Impact
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Department of Geoscience
Helping the UW explore questions about the
earth, life, and the environment
Ciriacks Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
In 1998, you established the Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks Wisconsin
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Fund to benefit the Department
of Geology and Geophysics. This gift helps support outstanding
graduate-student education and research, which is critical to the
continued success of the program that is now known as geoscience.
Thanks to your support, these past Ciriacks WDGF recipients have
launched successful careers in academia and industry:
2004–05Stephanie Maes MS’02, PhD’06,
geoscience, an associate professor of geology
at the College of Saint Rose
“It is clear to me that my career blossomed
in my final year at graduate school.
I think this is a consequence of my hard
work and perseverance paying dividends
in the stable, flexible environment made
possible by the Ciriacks’ generosity
and foresight.”
— Eric Horsman
“The Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks
Fellowship allowed me to really focus on
my research in the last year of my PhD
As a consequence, I was able to publish
Leonardo Piccoli PhD’05,
geoscience, a geologist at BP
five papers, three from my PhD, from
2005–07Eric Horsman MS’03, PhD’06,
I would not have been able to do this
geoscience, an assistant professor of geological sciences
at East Carolina University
2008–09Jennie Cook PhD’10,
geoscience, a geologist and petrophysicist at BP
work done while under the fellowship.
without the stress relief of the fellowship.
For that, I am extremely grateful for the
gratitude offered by Ken and Linda.” — Paul Riley
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Paul Riley MS’06, PhD’10,
geoscience, an exploration geologist at ExxonMobil
2012–13
Chloe Bonamici PhD’13,
geoscience, a postdoctoral scientist at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
“[The WDGF] allowed me to focus on my
research and make significant progress
toward completing my degree.”
— Jennie Cook
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Department of Geoscience continued
Ken and Linda Ciriacks Undergraduate Teaching Lab
The Weeks Hall expansion was dedicated in May 2006. The west-wing addition updated
facilities, modernized technology, and allowed for additional introductory courses to
respond to the growing interest by students. Members of the board of visitors, led by you
and Jay Nania, were major donors to the effort. Your personal contribution, as well as your
work to mobilize other alumni gifts, was recognized with the naming of a lab in your honor.
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Department of Geoscience continued
Taking science to the community
Your generosity to the Geology Museum helped to make possible the excavation and
reconstruction of a 33-foot-long Edmontosaurus dinosaur skeleton.
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Gift Impact
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Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
2005
Fostering connections to Badgers
around the world
James Baughman, professor,
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication
Ciriacks Alumni Outreach Excellence Award
2006
Your gifts to the Wisconsin Alumni Association Endowment Fund
are used to support a faculty outreach award. The Ciriacks Alumni
Outreach Excellence Award recognizes UW faculty members who
go beyond their job roles to support the Wisconsin Idea and WAA
by delivering enrichment and outreach programs. Since 2005, eight
faculty have received the award.
Robin Shepard PhD’93
associate professor, Department of
Life Sciences Communication
2007
David McDonald, professor,
Department of History
2008
Jeremi Suri, professor,
Department of History
2009
Richard Hartel, professor,
Department of Food Science
2010
Kathleen Sell, Distinguished
Lecturer, Integrated Liberal Studies
Program
2011
Stephen Ward, professor, School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
2013
Deborah Blum MA’82
professor, School of Journalism and
Mass Communication
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WAA continued
Alumni Park
Alumni Park will be a year-round celebration of how alumni fulfill the Wisconsin Idea
through service, discovery, tradition, legacy, progress, and leadership. You have been an ardent
and steadfast supporter of Alumni Park throughout your tenure on the WAA board. Not only
did you make a significant gift supporting the project, but you also strongly advocated for every
board member to make a gift, helping WAA to meet its fundraising goal in 2013. We are
honored to recognize you both in our Legacy and Tradition exemplars in the center of Alumni
Park. Here you will be acknowledged with other alumni and families who have significantly
impacted the university and supported the vision of Alumni Park and the Wisconsin Idea.
Construction is scheduled to begin in late spring 2015, starting with Memorial Union’s
underground loading dock, which will form the park’s foundation. Work will also commence
on One Alumni Place. Facing Alumni Park, One Alumni Place is a reimagining of WAA’s
home as a visitor center for UW grads when they return to campus. One Alumni Place
should be completed by the end of 2015, and installation of Alumni Park will begin in 2016.
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College of Letters & Science Dean’s Priorities
Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks Faculty Fellow
The L&S Faculty Fellows Program was established to recognize outstanding teacherresearchers in two of the most meaningful ways possible: a prestigious named position and
a discretionary fund to cover research and teaching expenses. In 2008, Matthew Bershady,
professor of astronomy, was named the Kenneth and Linda Ciriacks Faculty Fellow.
Born in Madison, astronomer Matthew Bershady was raised in Philadelphia
and studied at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania (BA’85), and the
University of Chicago (PhD’92) before becoming a postdoctoral Hubble Fellow
at Lick Observatory at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Professor
Bershady joined the faculty at Penn State University in 1994 and moved
to the University of Wisconsin in 1997. At Wisconsin, he has served as the
board director of the Southern African Large Telescope and now plays a
leading role in the renowned Sloan Digital Sky Survey as the project scientist.
Starting in graduate school, Professor Bershady has developed an
astronomical research program building experimental instruments to observe
how galaxies have transformed from early times until today. As the Kenneth
and Linda Ciriacks Faculty Fellow, he designed new filters for uncovering
young stars born inside the dusty, thin layers of nearby galaxy disks. He
then built the first fiber-optic bundle for measuring how these disks grow and
thicken with age. The support from this fellowship was like venture capital
that enabled Professor Bershady to create novel instruments that form the
core of his vibrant science enterprise. He is grateful for your support, without
which he would not have had the opportunity for innovation and success.
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Letters & Science Board of Visitors Great People Scholarship Fund
The L&S BOV Great People Scholarship provides support to undergraduate students
with financial need who would be unable to afford a college education without financial
assistance. Since 2011, 35 students have benefited from the scholarship.
College of Letters & Science Annual Fund
The L&S Annual Fund is the dean’s top priority and a valuable tool that makes it possible
for L&S to provide an outstanding liberal arts education. The Annual Fund allows the
college to offer special opportunities that enrich undergraduate education, such as
internship and research experiences, resources to recruit and retain the best faculty and
staff, investments in scholarly domains in which we have existing or potential strength and
impact, and carrying out the Wisconsin Idea across the college.
Gary Sandefur Tribute Fund
The L&S Board of Visitors established the Gary Sandefur Tribute Fund in 2013 to recognize
former Dean Sandefur’s significant leadership of the college and the university as a whole.
The Sandefur Fund has been used to launch the L&S Career Initiative and to retain the
talented faculty who contribute to the UW’s national ranking and prestige.
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Thank You
Ken and Linda, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received tremendous benefit from
your campuswide support, involvement, community building, and Badger spirit.
On behalf of the College of Letters & Science, the Wisconsin Alumni Association, and
the UW Foundation, we would like to express our gratitude for your role in advancing
the sciences, the liberal arts, and alumni programs. Your remarkable generosity and
engagement have made an enormous difference to the Badger community. The continued
excellence of the UW depends on friends such as you.
Thank you so much. On, Wisconsin!
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