Hunter, president and laboratories director of Sandia National Laboratories, and a longtime Dean's Advisory Board member, has worked closely with Dean Khargonekar and gave $20,000 to start a college endowment in Khargonekar's honor.
The Dean’s Excellence Fund will give unrestricted money to future deans for research, equipment, travel, facility renovations and teaching. The goal is to raise $100,000 more within a year and $1 million in about five years. The fund may be eligible for $50,000 in state matching funds.
“The future of this college is dependent on a substance of quality,” Hunter said. “The foundation he (Khargonekar) has laid is that this is going to be a nationally recognized university.”
Another new endowment, the Pramod P. Khargonekar Junior Faculty Award for Excellence, will be used to support junior faculty. That fund has a goal of $50,000.
For more information about these funds, visit www.development.eng.ufl.edu.