Donor Spotlight: PSEG and Douglass 

 Corporate sponsors like PSEG and the PSEG Foundation make Douglass programs strong. With partners like PSEG, Douglass has been able to take science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) living-learning communities to the next level and provide vital mentoring to a new generation of STEM leaders. Since 2014, the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), New Jersey’s leading energy provider, and the PSEG Foundation have supported Douglass STEM programs, including the Reilly Douglass Engineering Living-Learning Community, the Computer Science Living-Learning Community for Women (CSLLC), the Bunting-Cobb Sciences Living-Learning Community (Sciences LLC), SUPER Undergraduate Research Program, and a formal mentoring program that connects PSEG employee mentors with Douglass students in both academic and real-world settings.

PSEG and the PSEG Foundation share Douglass' mission to increase the enrollment and retention of women in STEM through special academic, mentoring, and community networks, by supporting programs that help students succeed and thrive in demanding STEM majors.

Philanthropic contributions from the PSEG Foundation have provided critical mentoring, academic, and program support that form the core of these LLCs and programs. Crucially, the PSEG Foundation’s generosity has supported LLC graduate student mentors, provided summer stipends for students to conduct full-time research in the labs of Rutgers faculty members, sent Douglass students to industry conferences, such as the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Technology, and connected Douglass STEM students with employee mentors at PSEG for real-world industry perspectives.

Douglass thanks PSEG and the PSEG Foundation for their steadfast dedication to advancing women in science, technology, engineering, and math!