Two Northwestern alumni have donated millions to the Feinberg School of Medicine to bolster merit-based scholarships.

The majority of the $10.5 million gift from Muneer Satter (Weinberg ‘83) and Kristen Hertel (SESP ‘86) will go toward the Satter Foundation Scholarship program. The program gives $40,000 per year to three first-year students, an amount that they continue to receive through their third year at Feinberg. Since the scholarship was started in 2008, 18 graduate students have been provided with tuition support.

“Kristen and I are committed to the goal of assuring a Northwestern education to promising future physicians and medical scientists,” Satter said in a news release. “These scholarships are investments that will ultimately benefit medical science and humanity.”

The rest of the gift will support initiatives in the School of Education and Social Policy, including Project EXCITE, which provides gifted minority students in Evanston schools with supplementary education in math and science.

The gift is part of NU’s $3.75 billion “We Will” campaign that launched in March 2014.

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