The Medical School Research Fund commemorates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the College of Medicine. It was started by Yong Ock Cho (Medical School ’59) in December 1995, when she collected five $500 checks totaling $2,500. Then, retired professor Dr. Byong Cho Kim and alumnae including Hyang Won Lee (’51), Joo-Yeon Lee (’59), You Sim Oh Kim (’78), Ku-mie Oh Kim(’78) responded to the campaign. About $40,000 was raised in one year. Alumnae Soon Ja Choi Kim (’66), Myung Hee Hong Kim(’69) and Okhee Won(’70) continued to devote themselves to the fundraising campaign of Yong Ock Cho. In 2003, Moon Ja Chung Park (’66) reignited the fundraising campaign with the theme of the “Power of One.” With her dedication and the active support and leadership of Hak He Rhee Pyun (’60) the campaign reached over $200,000 in 2010. From the $200K in the permanently restricted fund, an annual support became available in 2011. The total amount of investment income earned from this principal as a research fund sent to Ewha University Medical School from 2011 to 2020 is $162,500.

College of Pharmacy Fund started in 1988 with the initial gift of $3,500 for research from the College of Pharmacy alumnae. It is the one of the first funds, established by a group of same major graduates to support their department’s studies. At the time, Hai Won Chang (’50), Young-Hee Lowe (’56), Hyo Bok Chung Lee (’57) donated gift to send laboratory equipment to the College of Pharmacy at Ewha University, and some funds were left after shipping the equipment to Korea. In the early 1990s, Chung Wan Lee Min (’65) and alumnae raised funds for new College of Pharmacy building. After the new building project, there are some gifts for the College and were added to the existing fund. In 2012, Meesang Ahn Chang (’66) and Young Za Kim (’57) started a fundraiser in order to strengthen the existing fund for the perpetual purpose. As of 09/30/2019, there is a balance of about $83,000 in the College of Pharmacy Fund.

Chong Soon Hong (’59), one of the first graduates from the College of Nursing, wished to establish a scholarship fund for Nursing college students. Her children, knowing that their mother always wanted to start a scholarship for her alma mater, sent the initial gift to establish the fund in 2016. At the news of the establishment, some alumnae of the College of Nursing from Alaska to New York contributed to the fund. Sung Hak Lee(’59), one of Chong Soon Hong’s graduating classmates, from Canada, had already started a scholarship fund in her name (Sung Hak Lee Choi Scholarship Fund). However, after hearing of the Nursing Science Scholarship Fund, she requested to the Foundation that her scholarship fund be merged in order to move up the date of fund’s availability to disburse. Even though the scholarship in Sung Hak Lee’s name has disappeared, we hope that Sung Hak Lee and Chong Soon Hong’s wish will be reached through the active participation from alumnae of the College of Nursing. As of 09/30/19, about $50,000 of funds has been accumulated.

In 1996, Ewha Womans University founded the College of Engineering. The board members of International Foundation for Ewha W. U., including Carol Murdoch and Gwen White, welcomed the news of starting the first woman’s engineering school in the world and started a scholarship fund to support it in 1994, even before the University set up the college. This fund is not a permanently restricted fund that supports scholarships through the proceeds from the principal, but a temporarily restricted fund that is disbursed whenever a certain amount of money is available for the scholarship. The College of Engineering had four departments when it is founded – Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Architecture, and Environmental Engineering. As of 2020, it has four divisions covering 12 different majors.