University of Kansas alumnus Roger Werholtz and his wife, Shirley, have made a $50,000 gift commitment to benefit KU’s School of Social Welfare.
Continue reading$50,000 gift commitment will create scholarship for KU’s School of Social Welfare
$1.25 million gift creates neuroscience fellowships at KU Medical Center
A $1.25 million gift to KU Endowment has created the Mabel A. Woodyard Fellowships in Neurodegenerative Disorders at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Continue readingDonors commit $612 million toward $1.2 billion goal for Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas
Building on four years of record private giving, KU Endowment has publicly launched Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas, a $1.2 billion fundraising campaign to support the aspirations of the University of Kansas and The University of Kansas Hospital.
Continue readingFormer Senator David Wysong named Advancement Board chair
Former Kansas Sen. David Wysong, of Mission Hills, Kan., is the new chair of the Advancement Board, an 85-member organization of business and community leaders formed in 2005 to promote the interests of the University of Kansas Medical Center, The University of Kansas Hospital and the University of Kansas Physicians.
Continue readingHall Family Foundation makes $790,000 gift for KU’s Hall Center for the Humanities
A $790,000 gift from the Hall Family Foundation will provide $430,000 for renovations to the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas and $360,000 toward meeting a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) matching challenge grant.
Continue reading$5 million gift from Chesapeake Energy Corporation will advance KU energy and environment research
Chesapeake Energy Corporation, based in Oklahoma City, has pledged a $5 million gift to fund an interactive high-tech auditorium to anchor the new $28 million Energy and Environment Center at the University of Kansas.
Continue readingBurns & McDonnell Foundation makes $500,000 gift for KU School of Engineering
A $500,000 gift from the Burns & McDonnell Foundation will help the University of Kansas School of Engineering increase the number of engineering graduates.
Continue readingKU School of Medicine alumnus gives $100,000 to establish scholarship
In November 1949, Hugo Zee stepped off a ship in Hoboken, N.J., with $100 in his pocket and a determination to start a new life. Within 10 years, the Holland immigrant would graduate from the University of Kansas and the KU School of Medicine, where today a new scholarship bears his name.
Continue readingNew English scholarship established at KU
A new University of Kansas scholarship honors the late Jamie Crockett Otis, a KU alumna who earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1971.
Continue reading$500,000 gift commitment will establish KU Medical Center visiting professorship
Misha Curtis, M.D., grew up in old Yugoslavia and knew since early childhood that she would become a physician and specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.
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