Partnerships of Significance
Hood gains strength and diversifies
its programs through numerous partnerships with individuals, organizations and businesses in this region and throughout the country. These partnerships provide us with internships, professional consultation, research opportunities and funding for purposes essential to our mission, such as scholarships and endowed chairs, and have contributed significantly to the forward movement of the College.
FITCI
Frederick Innovative Technology Center, Inc., the county’s first incubator for technology-based entrepreneurs, is a private-county-state-college partnership that fosters innovation and accelerates new product and business development in the county.
Businesses for Hood College
Since Hood’s founding in 1893, the business community has partnered with the College, providing leadership and financial support. Businesses, corporations and foundations such as The Hodson Trust, the Whitaker Foundation, the Delaplaine Foundation, Constellation Energy Group, the Nora Roberts Foundation, General Electric Co., Invitrogen and the American Chestnut Foundation have provided funds for academics, athletics, library resources and scholarships. The area’s first technology business incubator, located on campus, and Hood’s strong alliance with the National Cancer Institute research facility at nearby Fort Detrick, have inspired new interest in the College from the business, government and nonprofit sectors.
Fort Detrick
Hood’s relationship with Fort Detrick has many threads, and is constantly evolving. The first master’s degree in biomedical science offered in Maryland was developed by Hood biologists and Fort Detrick scientists, an example of the symbiotic relationship of two organizations that have very different purposes but share many of the same intellectual interests and values. In many ways Fort Detrick has served as an extension of the campus and our programs in the sciences.
Internships
Integrating theory with practice and professional learning, 37 percent of Hood’s 2007 graduates interned at some of the 200 local and regional sites with which Hood maintains relationships, including CBS Radio, Bechtel, Harpers Ferry National Park, Merrill Lynch, National Cancer Institute, National Zoo, Philadelphia Art Museum, the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of Energy, BoozAllen Hamilton, Baltimore County Historical Society and National Geographic Society.
The Hodson Trust
Awards from The Hodson Trust and the Hodson Scholarship Foundation totaling more than $61 million since 1936 have been used to
support student scholarships, professor endowments, athletic programs, research grants and internships, and to build and upgrade campus
infrastructure. The trust contributed $13 million to build the state-of-
the-art Hodson Science and Technology Center, completed in 2002.
Coca-Cola Foundation
Hood was awarded a grant in 2003 from the Coca-Cola Foundation that provides 10 scholarships each year for 10 years for women, age 24 and over, who transfer to Hood from a community college or return to Hood to complete their degrees.
Whitaker Foundation
The generous gifts Hood College has received from the Whitaker
Foundation, including the naming gift for the Whitaker Campus Center, and from the members of the Whitaker family, are a demonstration of the extraordinary loyalty and commitment of the two Whitaker sisters, Portia ’55 and Ruth ’55, who are alumnae of this College, and of their concern for the quality of education at Hood. The benefit we have received from these gifts is immeasurable.
National Science Foundation
Along with grants for teacher training and faculty research, National Science Foundation grants have allowed Hood to purchase sophisticated equipment, including the molecular modeling lab’s computers, which are specifically equipped to manipulate, visualize and hypothesize molecular structures at the atomic level.
National Endowment for the Humanities
As a small liberal arts college, Hood has had exceptional success
in receiving major grants from agencies such as the National Endowment for the Humanities. This speaks well of the quality of our faculty and
of the care and good judgment we employ in our grant-writing process.
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