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About the Green Scholarships
Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation for Earth Sciences
Cecil Green and Walter Munk first discussed the concept of a fund to pay the expenses of visiting scholars to IGPP in 1969. The primary
goal was to achieve a degree of flexibility in inviting outstanding talent that is not readily achieved through grant funds or through State appropriations. The Greens were receptive to the
idea of providing a fund whose income would be used for these purposes and then asked their attorney to implement an agreement with the University.
The principal difficulty in completing the arrangement was the reluctance on the part of the Regents to accept the Green's request that
the funds not be commingled with the Regent's Endowment Fund. The funds requested control by a local group to achieve a flexibility that would not be available with management by the University
of California. Following considerable negotiation, this principle was accepted and a set of By Laws and articles of incorporation were prepared. Under the articles, the Foundation was to have
a Board of Directors consisting of three prominent local citizens, a University of California Regent, and three ex-officio UCSD members: the UCSD Chancellor, the Director of Scripps and the
Director of the local branch of IGPP.
The Foundation was approved in April 1971, and the Greens offered securities having a cash value of not less than $600,000 on 19 January
1972. A reception was held at the home of Judith and Walter Munk on 24 July 1972 welcoming the first Green Scholar, Dr. Xavier Le Pichon.
The original gift, coupled with additional gifts from the Greens and others over the year as well as investments for growth in excess of
inflation, has grown to an endowment of approximately $4,000,000. The bylaws were modified over the years to allow the accumulation of a building fund and a fund to support matching funds
for IGPP scientists' proposals to government agencies for new equipment. The building fund allowed the construction of the new Revelle Laboratories of the Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute
of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and funds donated by the Greens were used to install much of the IDA network portion of the modern Global Seismic Network.
We have now hosted our 100th Green Scholar and the matching and building funds have been very successful. The Regents of the University
of California recently reaffirmed the existence of the independent foundation, now unique within the UC system. We look forward to the continued health and growth of the Foundation and its
support of IGPP goals.
Click here to see a list of all the Green Scholars at IGPP from 1972 to the present day.
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