Impact of Giving

In general, my annual gift to Maryland is to contribute back for the great and inexpensive education I received. The amount I've given since I've graduated (at least 15,000 over 15 years) is not even close to the value of the education I received. Since 2007, my gift represents a living memorial for my mother who passed away then from cancer. While not necessarily direct, maybe my gift will help a student one day find a great discovery that could change lives.

Anthony Lam `1995

Contact

Megan S. Carnell
Assistant Dean for Development
College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences

University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: 301.405.0205
Email: mcarnell@umd.edu

George A. Bean Memorial Award

In 1968, George began his 47-year career as a professor of plant pathology and cell biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. George’s research focus at the university was the toxic fungi and molds that occur in foods and feeds. During his final years of teaching and research, George became an authority on medicinal plants.

To the end of his career as a professor, George remained passionate and utterly unjaded about teaching undergraduate students. A great believer in young people, George was inspired every semester by the talent, curiosity, optimism, and essential goodness of his students. George passed away in August 2016 at the age of 83 after a long and successful battle with heart disease. This fund, established in 2017 by his widow, Dr. Barbara Bean, will support a merit-based award for students studying life sciences in the Terrapin Teachers Program in the College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

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