Donor Thank You 2020

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
Thank you for your support during the past year
As has been said many times in recent months, 2020
has been a year like no other. At the onset of the
Coronavirus pandemic, I am sure none of us could
have imagined just how many challenges we would
face, both individually and collectively.
As Vice-Chancellor and President, I have been
incredibly proud of the way our University community
has responded to the crisis, and of the resilience of
our students and colleagues that enabled them to
adapt almost overnight to the difficult and rapidlychanging
circumstances in which we found ourselves.
By donating generously to the two emergency funds set up to provide
help for students facing financial hardship, as a direct result of COVID-19
and to support new COVID-specific research projects, you too have played
a vital part in that response.
Your generosity has enabled us to offer increased scholarship
opportunities for students from under-represented groups and lowincome
backgrounds. It has also helped us to further our research into
finding solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing global society,
both now and in the future.
On behalf of all my Newcastle University colleagues, our students and
alumni, I offer my heartfelt thanks for your generosity. I can assure you that
it really does make a difference to all those who benefit in different ways
from your support.
Thank you once again for supporting Newcastle University. We are proud
and grateful that you have chosen to do so, I hope you enjoy reading about
the impact your donations have made in the pages that follow.
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Professor Chris Day
Vice-Chancellor and President