Farris Foundation Donates $1.1 Million to Fund TSRI Graduate Fellowship in Florida

The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation has made a $1.135 million gift to The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to create the Farris Foundation Endowed Graduate Fellowship on the Jupiter, Florida campus.

“I want to thank the Farris Foundation for its generous gift to support our graduate program,” said TSRI President Peter Schultz. “Gifts like this will help train the next generation of scientists who are critical to the future of biomedical research—and to build a lasting legacy of scientific excellence.”

The new Farris Foundation Endowed Graduate Fellowship will provide annual support for doctoral students at Scripps Florida in perpetuity.

“Our gift is an investment in the continued strength of biomedical research at Scripps Florida,” said Christine Koehn, executive director of the Farris Foundation, “so that young scholars will be able to reach their full potential as world-class scientists.”

TSRI’s graduate program is consistently rated by U.S. News and World Report as in the top 10 of its kind in the nation for chemistry and biology. Scripps Florida established a branch of the graduate program in 2005; the campus has since graduated 28 PhDs and 49 doctoral students are currently enrolled.

The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation, created in 1986 by a merger of the Victor W. Farris Foundation and the Celia Lipton Farris Foundation, seeks to support projects that provide the structure, encouragement and incentive that enable people to help themselves lead more successful, inspired and fulfilling lives.

More information on the Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W. Farris Foundation and TSRI’s graduate program is available on their respective websites.

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“Gifts like this will help train the next generation of scientists who are critical to the future of biomedical research—and to build a lasting legacy of scientific excellence.”
—Peter Schultz

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