A $1 million dollar gift commitment from a retired University of Kansas engineering faculty member will endow a fund named in honor of four influential professors.
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Retired KU educator’s gift commitment establishes Melville professorship
A gift commitment from Elizabeth Schultz, professor emerita of English at the University of Kansas, will provide $1.5 million for the Herman Melville Distinguished Professorship in the Department of English. Schultz taught at KU from 1967 to 2001.
Continue readingEngineering receives $4.1 million in-kind software gift
Engineering and geoscience students at the University of Kansas will benefit from more than $4 million in software developed by analytics provider IHS Markit.
Continue readingGifts establish medical oncology professorship at KU Med
A $1.3 million challenge grant from the Hall Family Foundation sparked a gift commitment of $650,000 from the Sunderland Family Fund, and together the gifts will establish the A. Drue Jennings Professorship in Medical Oncology at The University of Kansas Medical Center.
Continue readingFund provides performing arts access to Sabetha students
KU alumni Kent and Donna Saylor of Sabetha, Kansas, have established a performing arts fund to provide Sabetha public school students free access to Lied Center programming.
Continue readingGift turns professorship into Chair of Ophthalmology at KU
KU alumnus Luther Fry and his wife, Ardis, of Garden City, Kansas, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $1 million, which will support an Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Kansas.
Continue readingGift supports Alzheimer’s research at KU Medical Center
A $10,000 gift from Local Union No. 124 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, of Kansas City, Mo., for the University of Kansas Medical Center will help fight Alzheimer’s disease.
Continue readingFar Above: The Campaign for Kansas raises more than $1.6 billion
The largest higher education fundraising effort to date in the state, Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas, raised $1.66 billion, far exceeding its $1.2 billion goal.
Continue readingCouple’s estate gift gives $3.5 million to athletics, law
A gift commitment from KU alumni Nancy and the late Wint Winter Sr. will provide $3.5 million to be split evenly between the University of Kansas School of Law and Kansas Athletics.
Continue readingNew School of Nursing scholarship established
A new scholarship at the University of Kansas School of Nursing honors the late Melba Rose (Lungstrom) Morris, who died at the age of 90 in 2011.
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