A gift from the E. Eugene Carter Foundation establishes an annual opportunity award fund to benefit female Hispanic students in the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.
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When James J. Ascher Sr., and his wife, Mary Ellen, learned that a popular collection of Jayhawks that had been displayed at the Kansas Union was about to be sold in online auctions, the Overland Park, Kan., couple took swift action, making a $130,000 gift to keep the mythical birds at the University of Kansas.
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A $1.36 million gift from the estate of the late KU alumnus John P. Kaiser and his wife, Mary Kaiser, will provide scholarship support for journalism students.
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At the Sept. 28 annual meeting of the KU Endowment board of trustees, the board elected David B. Dillon as chair, William R. Docking as vice chair, and two other KU alumni as trustees. Dillon succeeds Deanell Reece Tacha, who served as chair since 2014.
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Two professors from the University of Kansas Medical Center, both well known as scientists, researchers and educators, now share an additional distinction of being recognized as Chancellors Club Teaching Professors for 2018.
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Alumni and friends invested $257.4 million in the University of Kansas during the 2018 fiscal year, which ended June 30, marking the second highest philanthropic giving total in the university’s history.
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A cancer geneticist at the University of Kansas Medical Center and a longtime professor of journalism at the University of Kansas will be honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.
Continue readingThe opioid crisis has brought heightened attention to the effects of addiction on individuals, families and communities.
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The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri, has made a $500,000 gift to create the Robert Almy Kipp Professorship of Practice in City Management at the University of Kansas.
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A gift of more than $1 million from the estate of the late speech pathologists Donald L. Robinson and Mary A. Carpenter of Shawnee, Kansas, will benefit people affected by communication disorders.
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