BSOS Unveils Feller Scholars Program BSOS AND MLAW PROGRAMS celebrate the establishment of the Joel and Kim Feller MLAW Endowed Scholarship, which supports merit-based scholarships for qualified undergraduate students in MLAW. Joel J. Feller, GVPT ’90, and Kim A. Feller, ’89, donated $500,000 to establish this scholarship; future recipients will be known as Feller Scholars. MLAW is a state-of-the-art collaboration between UMD and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, driven by MPower. MLAW offers undergraduate students unique opportunities to learn from law professors and practitioners, and to visit points of legal and policy interest in Washington, D.C., Annapolis and Baltimore. The Feller family is well-known throughout the legal community, as Joel Feller is a founding partner at Ross Feller Casey, LLP in Philadelphia, and is a nationally renowned victims’ rights advocate. Joel and Kim Feller are dedicated supporters of BSOS and UMD, having previously donated $500,000 to establish a dean’s-level professorship aimed at helping the college recruit or retain faculty in academic areas of need. Dr. Jack Blanchard in the Department of Psychology was awarded the first Joel and Kim Feller Professorship.
Joel Feller, left, and Kim Feller, right, with their son Cory.
The Fellers donated an additional $500,000 to establish the Feller Lecture within the Department of Government and Politics (GVPT), the department’s annual signature event (see story page 21). The Fellers also previously donated $100,000 to support a research professor in GVPT. MLAW Director Robert Koulish currently holds the Joel J. Feller Research Professorship. Joel Feller is a member of the University of Maryland Board of Trustees, and in 2016 was named BSOS Alumnus of the Year. “We in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences are deeply grateful to Joel and Kim Feller for their continued leadership in support of our college and the university,” said Dean Gregory Ball.
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BSOS Celebrates Giving Day ON BEHALF OF THE FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, thank you for supporting BSOS on Giving Day, March 7. This annual 24-hour fundraising challenge features good-natured competition between campus units for hourly prizes and challenge funds, and BSOS was one of the biggest winners of the day! Together, we raised more than $300,000 in gifts and by winning hourly competitions, the most funds of any academic unit on campus. We won three hourly challenges: Most Alumni Gifts (1011 a.m.), Most School/College Gifts Tier 1 (2-3 p.m.), and Most Alumni Gifts (7-8 p.m.). The loyalty of our donors allows us to support students, faculty and programs in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible: paying for students to attend academic conferences; providing innovative laboratory equipment and learning technology; bringing internationally renowned speakers to campus; covering travel expenses for students and faculty doing fieldwork around the world; and much more. Thank you for your generosity! We hope you will join us for Giving Day 2019.
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