A gift commitment from longtime faculty member Dennis Diederich, M.D., and his wife, Alice, will provide $1 million to endow a professorship at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
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A gift of more than $1.3 million from the estate of KU alumni Perry L. Rashleigh and Rosemary Jones Rashleigh will create five Rashleigh Family Scholarships for students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, math and English.
Continue readingFive professors from the University of Kansas may be experts in widely different fields, but they all share one important distinction: Their excellence as educators has earned them prestigious Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships in 2017.
Continue readingAt the annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees on Oct. 6, 2017, three new trustees were elected: Joanna Rupp of Chicago; Elizabeth A. Schartz of Dallas; and R. Todd Slawson of Denver.
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University of Kansas School of Law alumnus Art Piculell of Scottsdale, Ariz., has made a $500,000 gift to establish a professorship honoring the late Professor William R. Scott, who taught law at KU from 1947 to 1979.
Continue readingA University of Kansas Medical Center cancer researcher and a longtime business law professor will be honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.
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A $400,000 gift from a KU alumna who devoted decades of her life to acting and volunteering with the Lawrence Community Theatre will benefit the School of Music and the Department of Dance at the University of Kansas.
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“A lifetime of experience is worth sharing.”
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A $1.1 million gift from the estate of the late Marilyn Stokstad, distinguished professor emerita of art history, will provide support to the Spencer Museum of Art, the libraries and students at the University of Kansas.
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A $100,000 estate gift from the late KU alumna Marynell Dyatt Reece will provide funds for the Spencer Museum of Art, a nursing scholarship and the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas.
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