W. M. Keck Foundation

Overview

• 2017: The Keck Center for Science and Engineering, at Chapman University, $21 million
• The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies of Claremont McKenna College
• The W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College.
• The W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training at Rice University in Houston, Texas
• Support for building of the Keck Observatory at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington
• 1985, 1991: Construction of the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, Keck I, Keck II, about $70 million for each
• Keck Institute for Space Studies, established in 2008, a joint institute of the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• 1999: Expansion of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, $110 million
• The W.M. Keck Building Center for fMRI & the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Research at the University of California, San Diego
• Creation of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, California
• Sponsor of the Keck Computer Science Lab at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California
• The W.M. Keck Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at University of California, Irvine
• The WM Keck Center for 3D Innovation at University of Texas at El Paso
• The William M. Keck Building at the California Institute of Technology
• The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C..
• The Keck Science Center at Pepperdine University
• The Keck Array
• W.M.Keck Earth Science and Metal Engineering Museum at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, whose renovation the foundation funded, at the University of Nevada, Reno

Funding

• Research that is high impact and that questions or challenges the prevailing paradigm
• Research projects that no one else is pursuing
• A new research project that is in its early stages
• Basic research, not translational or clinical research
• Research that would result in general information and new methodologies that can be of benefit to the field, even if the project were to go awry
• Research projects that are not funded by any other foundation, and research projects that could not move along without Keck funding
• Though this is not a requirement, the W.M. Keck Foundation prefers projects that involve some kind of collaboration over single investigator research