Giving

Why Give?

Your gift benefits Hill-Lopes scholars and the experiences offered through our programs. Through intentional, multilayered mentoring, professional development experiences and career exploration events, Hill-Lopes scholars graduate with the skills needed for their unique STEM journeys.

Your gift helps sustain the good work we do.

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Ways to Give

Give to the the Hill-Lopes Scholarship Fund ($1,000 or more)

Your gift will lessen the financial burden of Hill-Lopes Scholars so the cost of obtaining a higher education will not limit their ability to graduate and become a future changemaker in STEM.

Donate to the Professional Development Conference Fund ($2,500)

You can impact a scholar’s career path in STEM by providing travel and conference funds. This level of investment will allow a scholar to network with professionals in their desired field and gain exposure to career paths and opportunities they would not have otherwise had the privilege to experience.

Contribute to a STEM Seminar Events ($1,000 – $5,000)

Your investment in a STEM Seminar Event, allows the Hill-Lopes Scholars Program, and the campus at-large, to link mission and vision of the program to a live, in-person seminar event. In-person speakers are hosted twice a year. The Hill-Lopes Scholars Program, TU Community and general public are invited to attend.  

Past speakers have included:

• Dr. Dawn Wright, Submersible Diver to Challenger Deep — more about Dr. Wright
• Dr. Meg Urry, pioneering researcher who discovered several black holes — more about Dr. Urry and black holes
• Dr. Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, chair, digital multimedia sciences section, American Academy of Forensic Sciences — more about Dr. Seigfried-Spellar (YouTube video podcast))

Sponsor a STEM Seminar Event ($10,000 - 30,000)

Your sponsorship of a STEM Seminar Event allows the Scholars program to invite a prominent, nationally recognized speaker to TU. Sponsoring a STEM seminar offers exposure and engagement with the Scholars Program, TU’s campus and beyond.

• Proposed nationally recognized speaker: Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire, PhD

Sponsor a Career Exploration Field Trip ($2,000)

You can help Hill-Lopes Scholars and STEM students explore different career paths through on-site visits at various local and regional companies and organizations. Past field trips have included:

• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Integra Life Sciences
• Becton Dickinson

Sponsor a Community Building Experience ($2,000)

You can help Hill-Lopes Scholars learn the importance of community as they navigate their STEM studies and careers. Scholars have reported greatly valuing the community provided by the program, especially as a comfortable and accepting safe space for women in similar fields. Community building programs include monthly lunches, trip to the National Aquarium, attending a Baltimore Orioles game.

Meet Our Donors

Barbara Hill

Operating Partner, NexPhase Capital

Born in Baltimore, Barbara Hill was raised in a family of scientists. Although she pursued a different career path, her early life was filled with opportunities to explore and experience nature.

Barbara is currently an operating partner of NexPhase Capital (formerly Moelis Capital Partners), a private equity firm, where she focuses on healthcare-related investments and providing strategic and operating support for the fund’s healthcare portfolio companies. She sits on the boards of all the healthcare portfolio companies, and chairs most of those boards. 

Until 2010, Barbara served as chief executive officer and a director of ValueOptions, Inc., a national managed behavioral health company. Prior to that, she served as president and a director of Express Scripts, Inc., a Fortune 100 pharmacy benefits management company. In previous positions, Barbara was responsible for operations nationally for Cigna HealthCare, and also served as the CEO of health plans owned by Prudential, Aetna, and the Johns Hopkins Health System.

Barbara serves as a board member of Integra LifeSciences Corporation, a publicly traded medical technology company, and of Omega Healthcare Investors, a publicly traded REIT holding over 1,000 skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. and England. Previously, she served on the boards of: Owens & Minor, a Fortune 300 healthcare services company; St. Jude Medical, a Fortune 500 medical device company; and Revera Inc., a Canadian company operating over 500 seniors’ facilities throughout Canada and the U.S. Barbara obtained her bachelor’s degree Phi Beta Kappa and her master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore City.

Ancelmo Lopes

Board Director, PhyMed

Ancelmo Lopes has more than 35 years of experience in building and managing health care companies. Currently, Lopes serves on the board of SP Strategic Acquisition Corp., which identifies and evaluates businesses with the goal of completing a qualifying transaction.

He was formerly chairperson of Results Physical Therapy, a large regional, private equity-sponsored physical therapy business. He was also chairperson of Surgical Solutions, a privately sponsored company that provides hospitals, doctors, and staff with state-of-the-art products, equipment, and skilled personnel to facilitate workflow and inventory management in operating rooms. He also served on the boards of two other private equity-sponsored companies.

Lopes was president and CEO of Ameritox, a national toxicology laboratory. He was also senior vice president and national leader for Coventry Health Care's Medicaid managed care division and CEO of Health Care USA, Coventry's largest Medicaid managed care company. Lopes was also CEO of Harmony Health Plans of Illinois and Indiana, the largest provider of such services in Illinois. He was also president of the Prudential Health Care Plan of the Mid-Atlantic, supporting all of Prudential’s health care insurance products in the region.

He also serves on the board of the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Lopes holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.