For Doug and Susan Miller of Mission Hills, Kan., loyalty to the University of Kansas is a way of life.
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Nordling provides support for scholarships, Swarthout Recital Hall
Barbara Nordling, of Lawrence, Kan., is among University of Kansas alumni and friends stepping up to provide support for the renovation of Swarthout Recital Hall.
Continue readingEngineering alumnus leaves $2 million gift to department
A gift of more than $2 million from the late KU alumnus John Bossi of Arkansas City, Kansas, will benefit the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas.
Continue readingKoch Industries gift of $1 million establishes business, engineering scholarship fund
A gift commitment of $1 million from Koch Industries, Inc., will benefit students in the schools of Business and Engineering at the University of Kansas.
Continue readingGift endows chemical engineering fund at KU
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.
Continue readingRetired 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.
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