UK Research Challenge Trust Fund

Bucks for Brains

Endowments

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Bucks for Brains is an endowment-match program that creates chairs, professorships, fellowships and scholarships, and endowments for research support and for the library. The University of Kentucky provides a dollar-for-dollar match by internal reallocation or by raising external funds. For more information, click on the Annual RCTF Endowment Match Program Report FY 2006-2007 and Endowment Match Program Guidelines.

RCTF/Bucks for Brains at UK

  • created 83 endowed chairs and awarded 65
  • created 210 endowed professorships and awarded 141
  • created 240 fellowships, scholarships, and endowments for research support and for the William T. Young Library