Support Graduate Students on Give Day
Graduate students teach undergraduates, advance critical research and shape the future across disciplines. That’s why the Dean Ross Grad Student Travel Endowment and the Kitto Graduate Hub Endowment for Graduate Student Achievement and Success are so important.
The travel grant gives grad students the opportunity to attend conferences and arts exhibitions, present research and creative work, and network with mentors and other professionals in their field. The Kitto Grad Hub is a vibrant, inclusive space on campus dedicated to grad students — a home for collaboration, community and professional development. Even modest gifts to these funds can have an outsized impact.
The first $1,000 in donations for Give Day will be generously matched by Dean of the Graduate School David Patrick and his wife Bahareh.
Will you give today to support Western graduate students?
Meet the graduate students and alumni who benefit from your generosity on Give Day
WWU environmental studies graduate student Tilali Scanlan, of American Samoa is an Olympic swimmer (Tokyo ’20) who trained in the ocean for most of her 10+ year career. And now she studies sea-level rise and worsening coastal hazard impacts on threatened port systems in American Samoa.
Beau Jay is a graduate student of environmental studies at Western who studies how ecological emotions emerge during natural disasters. For their master’s thesis, they are focusing on the emotional impact of the Eaton and Palisades fire. Through victims' connections to animals, Jay is finding that climate anxiety turned to eco rage in the aftermath of the 2025 LA County urban wildfires.
When you support the Graduate School, your gift to graduate students matters now and continues to give for generations to come.
