DU Alumnus Makes Transformative Gift to Alma Mater

Oct. 15, 2018 - Richard Weeks, Rutgers '50, recently pledged $10 million to Rutgers University for scholarships in the university's school of engineering. It is the largest gift to Rutgers University for scholarships, as well as the largest gift in the history of the engineering school. 

Weeks had previously pledged $6 million in 2014 for the construction of the Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering, which opened in September 2018 at the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. 

After graduating from Rutgers in 1950, Brother Weeks transformed his family's small marine construction company into a national firm. Today, Weeks Marine is a leading marine construction, dredging and tunneling firm with operations across North America. 

The Richard N. Weeks Endowed Scholarship will help Rutgers students studying in the engineering field. 

Weeks was quoted in local papers as saying: "Rutgers is at the forefront of engineering education. I created this scholarship so that even more students will have the opportunity to get a first-class education at Rutgers and go on to find solutions to society's greatest challenges."

Join Delta Upsilon in thanking Brother Richard Weeks for embodying the Fraternity's Four Founding Principles through this gift that will help students for years to come.