Leslie Marsicano, who manages Te Summer Institute for Research and Creative Work funded by the James E. Rogers Research Program as the director of the Preyer Honors Programs and Initiatives for Academic Excellence. “Even with the best intentions, it’s hard to manage a job and quality research.” Tat’s not the case at Queens. Tanks to the
generosity and forethought of Mary Anne “M.A.” Boldrick Rogers, research dreams couple with financial resources to deliver exciting discoveries through the newly formed James E. Rogers Research Program. A longtime Queens Trustee, M.A. committed $1 million to endow the institute in memory of her late husband, Jim, former chairman and CEO of Duke Energy. “I wanted to do something honoring Jim,” M.A. explained. “He appreciated the mentors he had, and one of his great delights, both as a CEO and after he retired, was mentoring others.” While M.A. and her late husband have been
strong supporters of Queens in the past—M.A. committed $600,000 to endow the Mary Anne Rogers Presidential Scholarship Fund, which Jim originally established in her honor, and the couple made the naming gift for The James E. and Mary Anne Rogers Science and Health Building in 2013—this is a new type of investment in the university. Te institute provides undergrads a rare immersive
research experience of six to twelve weeks during the summer in collaboration with, or under the supervision of, a Queens faculty member. Marsicano explained that the program is designed to give students an opportunity to do research, support faculty in their research and provide an intellectual community. Students whose projects are selected in a competitive review receive a $3,000 stipend to live on campus, travel for field research or offset academic year expenses. Tey can work individually or in groups of up to four, and professors receive the same stipend. Eight of the 15 research groups that applied to the inaugural summer institute were accepted. These participants hailed from the College of Arts and Sciences, McColl School of Business and Blair College of Health.
M. A . ROGERS
“I wanted to do something honoring Jim. He appreciated the mentors he had, and one of his great delights, both as a CEO and after he retired, was mentoring others.”
—M.A. Rogers, member of Queens Board of Trustees
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