A gift commitment of more than $1 million from KU alumna Tracy Ashlock will establish a travel fund for environmental studies students at the University of Kansas.
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KU plans first 24-hour day of giving with One Day. One KU.
On Tuesday, Feb. 20, alumni and friends from all over the world will come together to support the University of Kansas for its first 24-hour giving campaign, One Day. One KU.
Continue readingGift creates art scholarships and increases music, architecture scholarship funds at KU
A significant planned estate gift commitment from University of Kansas alumnus John Eyler establishes new scholarships in visual art and art history at KU, and also increases the architecture and music scholarships that he established in 2013.
Continue reading$2 million gift to establish law scholarship, liberal arts research fund at KU
KU alumnus William “Brad” Bradley Jr., of Overland Park, Kansas, has made a $2 million gift commitment that will endow a scholarship in the School of Law and a research excellence fund for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.
Continue reading$1 million gift endows professorship at KU Medical Center
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.
Continue reading$1.3 million gift establish 5 scholarships KU students
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 readingKU recognizes five educators with Chancellors Club professorships
Five 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 readingKU Endowment elects three new trustees
At 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.
Continue readingNew law professorship honors memorable KU educator
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 reading2017 Chancellors Club professors specialize in cancer prevention, business law
A 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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