Your gift to the Actuarial Science Fund will have a wide impact as it supports a range of activities including student awards and fellowships, graderships, professional exam reimbursement, career development services, undergraduate research, faculty support, and alumni connections.
Help keep an Illinois education affordable for deserving students from all income levels, so that they can go on to solve the outstanding mathematical problems of our time. Scholarship funds enable promising students to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities and innovative programs provided by the Department of Mathematics, and help us to attract the best students to study mathematics at Illinois. All students who are admitted to an undergraduate degree program in the Department of Mathematics (including Actuarial Science) are eligible for a scholarship. The department currently offers four-year $6000/year scholarships.
We count on the generosity of alumni and friends to support scholarships to attract and support talented students as they embark on a world-class and innovative actuarial education at Illinois.
The Esther Portnoy Actuarial Science Scholarship is established in honor of Professor Emeritus Esther Portnoy, who was a long-time director and pioneer of the Actuarial Science Program. The program went through tremendous growth under her directorship. The main aim of this scholarship is to help grow and train new generations of actuaries and actuarial scientists with strong leadership and critical thinking skills, in particular from historically underrepresented backgrounds.