The Clark Charitable Foundation Inc. has pledged $15 million to Johns Hopkins University to provide financial aid for undergraduate engineering students, the university announced Monday.
The donation is the largest ever endowed gift to Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering and it honors A. James Clark, a Hopkins trustee and construction magnate who died last year at 87.
Hopkins President Ronald Daniels said in a statement that the gift reflects Clark's legacy "of transforming the architecture of our university and helping to educate the engineering leaders of tomorrow."
The money will provide need-based aid to students.
Courtney Clark Pastrick, chair of the Bethesda foundation, said in a statement that her father believed engineering was vitally important to the future of society.
"We are proud to partner with Johns Hopkins in helping to train future engineering leaders," she said in a statement.