Gratitude for the scholarship support they received in college, and a lifelong passion for reading, has led University of Kansas alumnus Michael Cummings and his wife, Pamela Miller, of Kansas City, Missouri, to make a $2 million gift commitment for the University of Kansas.
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Roger and Julie Davis, of Chicago, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $7.2 million, which will enable the University of Kansas School of Business to create a Center for Figure Sense.
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At today’s annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees, four new trustees were elected: Angela Chammas of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois; Marvin Motley of Leawood, Kansas; Diane Yetter of Chicago; and Carl Krehbiel, of Moundridge, Kansas.
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KU Endowment provided $184.6 million in direct financial support for the University of Kansas and The University of Kansas Hospital in fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30. This represents a 48 percent increase over last year’s amount of $124.1 million.
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University of Kansas professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship. The award will provide a salary stipend of $10,000 for each of the next five years.
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A University of Kansas Medical Center researcher who has discovered compounds that give hope to patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease and other genetic blood disorders, and a longtime KU English professor revered by students and colleagues alike are being honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.
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The Shawnee Mission/Kansas City alumnae chapter of Delta Delta Delta has reached a $100,000 milestone in their longtime support of children’s health care at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Donors supporting the University of Kansas contributed $258.8 million in fiscal 2015, which ended June 30.
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Talk about timely. In 1995, when the Internet’s popularity was soaring, the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development launched the Community Tool Box website — a free resource to help communities at home and abroad improve health and development.
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Since the founding of the University of Kansas 150 years ago, courses in the humanities have been the bedrock of a KU education. To further strengthen the humanities at KU, the Hall Family Foundation has made a $1.46 million combination gift and challenge grant.
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