Ellen DeSanctis, PNT’16, ’23 

$32,000 to the Marine Science Fund
$100,000 to fund a Research Co-op Fellowship 
$1,000,000 to fund an assistant professorship

Ellen DeSanctis, mother to Anna, D’Amore-McKim School of Business Class of 2016, and Mia, College of Science Class of 2021, MS in Biotechnology Class of 2023, has given generously to the College of Science over the years. In 2013, Anna’s Freshman year, she began giving to an endowed family fund, culminating in $1,000,000 which was dedicated to establishing the Foley Family Assistant Professorship. Then in 2018, Ellen gave an additional $32,000 to support faculty research in the Marine Science Center. In 2022, to support undergraduate research in the College of Science, Ellen created the DeSanctis Family Research Co-Op Fellowship with a gift of $100,000.