Read the full story by Robin Roger in the Cornell Chronicle.

A $2 million gift from Rebecca “Becky” Quinn Morgan ’60 and her husband, James C. Morgan ’60, MBA ’63, has endowed a fund in the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) in the College of Human Ecology (CHE).

The endowment will establish a Director’s Innovation Fund to support early-stage research projects that meaningfully engage communities, which is a hallmark of the BCTR. The center promotes working together with communities to develop and apply research and brings together a host of programs and projects, including youth development through New York State 4-H, Act for Youth and the Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement (PRYDE). The center also includes the Purpose Science and Innovation Exchange (PSiX), an initiative that BCTR director Anthony Burrow recently launched to study the development and benefits of having a sense of purpose. PSiX will partner with youth-serving organizations interested in cultivating this sense to enhance young people’s well-being.

“Having witnessed the profound impact that Tony Burrow and the Bronfenbrenner team have made through PRYDE, I am pleased to support engaged learning and translational research more broadly through the establishment of this endowment,” Becky Morgan said. “I am confident that Tony and future directors will leverage it to foster innovative work with lasting significance.”