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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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An estate gift of nearly $430,000 from the late University of Kansas alumna Patricia A. Rozema Taylor has established two new scholarships at KU, one for design students in the School of Architecture, Design & Planning, and one for students in the School of Engineering.
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Watch the fascinating process behind the making of the bronze Naismith sculpture — a multi-year-long project between father and son, Elden and Kim Tefft.
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A $4 million estate gift from University of Kansas alumnus Irving Kuraner and his wife, Leona, will establish a scholarship fund which will provide assistance to undergraduate students in any discipline who show academic excellence and financial need.
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