Banks Family Fellowship Fund
This fund is designed to ease the financial burden for STEM students from Brooklyn, NY, by providing support to empower their academic and personal success through graduation.
The Banks Family Fellowship Fund, established in 2025, expands access to Adelphi University’s STEM majors by offering need-based scholarships to first year students. Priority is given to rising high school seniors who reside in the borough of Brooklyn, NY, and intend to study science, mathematics, technology, or engineering. This scholarship is renewable for full-time undergraduate students, with 50% of the award disbursed in the fall semester and 50% disbursed in the spring semester.
Through this initiative, Adelphi University continues its mission to promote access, opportunity and social mobility for motivated young scholars.
How to Apply to the Program
For more information about applying to this scholarship, please contact First Year Student Admissions.
About Jeanine Banks ’03 MBA
Jeanine L. Banks ‘03 MBA, is a visionary founder, investor, and executive whose generous gift to Adelphi University reflects both her deep gratitude for her education and her unwavering commitment to empowering future generations of students. As an Adelphi alumna and Brooklyn native, Mrs. Banks leads global efforts to democratize access to cutting-edge AI models and robotics. This gift, which supports students from Brooklyn—where Adelphi was founded in 1896—honors the University’s origins while investing in its future.
Throughout a career spanning global leadership roles at Google, Amazon Web Services, GE Healthcare, and IBM, as Founder and CEO of Lovell AI and Healthcake, and as a Partner in Ntrypoint Ventures, LLC, Mrs. Banks has continually championed technology as a force for progress. This gift ensures that aspiring students have the opportunity to access an Adelphi education, unlock their potential, and create lasting impact, whether in their communities or across the world—just as she strives to do.
Mrs. Banks is inspired by the potential of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Quantum Computing to contribute lasting benefits to humanity in the future, just as prior technological changes have done throughout history. This gift will support the next generation of visionaries, entrepreneurs, and problem solvers in harnessing these innovations with the utmost safety and ethics. Ms. Banks is a member of Adelphi’s President’s Advisory Council and is also the current Executive-in-Residence for the Willumstad School of Business. as well as an Adjunct Professor teaching AI Ethics & Business Analytics.