Institute Giving Priorities
- Enhancing Academic Programs and Research
- Undergraduate Fellows Program - Fellowships offer undergraduate students an immersive program that enhances the recruitment and retention of the most highly qualified and motivated students interested in pursuing brain health related research at KSU.
- Pilot Grant Program - Pilot grants support cutting edge research to promote brain health in people of all ages. Every $1 of pilot funding returns $28 of extramural funding to the university.
- Endowed Chairs and Professorships - Endowed positions are permanently supplemented by the revenue generated from an endowed fund, created thanks to the generosity of donors. Endowed chairs and professorships also often provide the holder with additional funds for research, equipment or other support. Endowed positions are crucial for recruiting and retaining the highest-quality faculty, and donor support for endowed positions makes a lasting impact on the university and our students.
- Enhancing Research and Educational Spaces - The BHRI facilities include research collaboratories, multi-investigator labs, student desk space, and meeting and event areas. Central to the BHRI’s impact are its advanced neurocognitive, neuroimaging, and biosampling collaboratories which house fNIRS and EEG systems with data analysis software, a Blaze light sheet microscope, an Olympus slide scanner, a fluorescence and brightfield microscope with MBF Bioscience, and image analysis software.
- Director’s Development Fund - General support will be used at the discretion of the director to support a variety of needs on behalf of the institute, its research and its students. This type of donor support allows us to be nimble and proactive when needs arise.
