Corporate Contributors
With documented results from the program’s first three years, ACS began to seek external funding to enlarge the pool of scholarship recipients. Cumulative gifts since 1997 have reached the following levels:
| Founding Partner | $1 million + | PPG Industries |
| Benefactor | $1 million | Procter & Gamble |
| Visionary Partners | $500,000 | 3M, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and GlaxoSmithKline |
| Sustaining Partners | $250,000 | ACS Petroleum Research Fund, BASF, Dow Corning, DuPont, Merck & Co. Inc., Schering-Plough, and Société de Chimie Industrielle |
| Partners | $100,000 | Air Products, AstraZeneca, Celgene, CME ACS, Covestro, The Dow Chemical Company, Genentech, Gilead Sciences*, Pfizer, WR Grace, and Xerox |
*Endowed an ACS Scholarship
Gifts from $2,500 to $99,000 have been received from more than 40 corporations and foundations, and individual ACS members have donated more than $1 million.
Endowment Founders and Current Scholars
In addition to these generous contributions, ACS has established the ACS Scholars Program Endowment as a base of enduring support to encourage diversity in the chemical sciences well into the future. Individuals or corporations may create a named scholarship with a $100,000 contribution to the endowment.
Endowment Name | Donor |
Arindam Bose ACS Scholar | Arindam Bose |
| Ronald Breslow ACS Scholar | Family and colleagues of Ronald Breslow |
| Bill and Mary Carroll ACS Scholar | Bill and Mary Carroll |
| Halley Merrell ACS Scholar | Matthew K. Chan |
| Gilead Sciences ACS Scholar | Gilead Sciences |
| Diane Grob Schmidt ACS Scholar | Diane Grob Schmidt |
| Gretchen R. Hall ACS Scholar | Gretchen R. Hall |
Carolyn Haynie and William Penn ACS Scholar | Sharon Haynie |
| S. Allen Heininger ACS Scholars | S. Allen Heininger |
| Madeleine Jacobs ACS Scholars | Madeleine Jacobs and Anonymous Donor |
| Joan M. Kaminski ACS Scholars | Joan M. Kaminski |
| Marjorie O. Leenhouts Scholarship for a Young Woman in College Majoring in Chemical Sciences | Jim & Marjorie Leenhouts |
Bruce E. and Cynthia A. Maryanoff ACS Scholar | Bruce E. and Cynthia A. Maryanoff |
| E.G. Meyer Family ACS Scholar | E.G. Meyer |
| Eli Pearce ACS Scholar | Family and colleagues of Eli Pearce; the ACS New York Local Section |
| Barbara Rupple ACS Scholar | Barbara Rupple |
| Catherine T. Sigal ACS Scholar | Catherine T. Sigal |
| Joseph Vacca ACS Scholar | Joe Vacca |
Ernest Eliel ACS Scholars Travel Award
The Ernest Eliel ACS Scholars Travel Award was created in 2018 thanks to contributions from colleagues of Ernest Eliel. These funds will be used to help current ACS Scholars attend ACS Meetings in order to present original research, network, and participate in professional development workshops and sessions.
