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Tri Delta alumnae support children’s cancer care at KU Medical Center

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.

Private giving to KU reaches $258.8 million in fiscal 2015

Donors supporting the University of Kansas contributed $258.8 million in fiscal 2015, which ended June 30.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants $250,000 for KU’s Community Tool Box

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.

Major gift creates an enticing package for ‘rising stars’ in the humanities at KU

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.

KU School of Music announces fundraising drive to honor renowned professor

After 41 years of directing bands and teaching music at the University of Kansas School of Music, world-renowned musician and composer James Barnes will retire this spring.

New KU professorship honors longtime pharmaceutical researcher

In his second-floor corner office in Simons Biosciences Research Laboratories at the University of Kansas, Professor Ron Borchardt gestures to file cabinets lining a wall.

Former librarian bequeaths $1 million for KU’s Spencer Research Library

On a visit to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, you would be hard pressed to find someone who did not know the work and impact of Sandy Mason.

Marching Jayhawks to debut new uniforms in the fall

For more than a century, the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks have added spirit and music to KU football games. Next fall, the 270-member marching band will return to Memorial Stadium with yet another crowd-pleaser in store — new uniforms in KU’s colors — crimson and blue.

$1 million gift will expand and enhance Osher Institute programming

A $1 million gift from The Bernard Osher Foundation will strengthen an endowed fund that benefits the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a unit of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas.