A $264,000 estate gift from University of Kansas alumni Wayne and Joan Anderson has created a new scholarship for KU students.
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Donors provide $2.7 million for expansion of KU School of Medicine–Wichita
In less than four months, donors have contributed $2.7 million for expansion of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. The lead gift of $800,000 was given by the Kansas Health Foundation.
Continue readingAlumna establishes gift in memory of her father, a former KU professor
A University of Kansas alumna has committed $400,000 through her estate to honor her father, Ethan Allen, a former chair of KU’s Department of Political Science.
Continue readingKU Endowment trustees elect chair, vice chair and new trustees
At its 119th annual meeting Oct. 22, the KU Endowment Board of Trustees appointed A. Drue Jennings as board chair, reappointed Judge Deanell Reece Tacha as vice chair and elected five new trustees. Jennings replaces Kurt Watson, of Wichita, whose four-year term ended.
Continue readingKU Endowment provides record $115.1 million to KU
KU Endowment provided a record $115.1 million in philanthropic support to the University of Kansas in fiscal year 2010, a 9.2 percent increase over the previous fiscal year.
Continue readingKU professors honored for Chancellors Club teaching and research awards
This year’s University of Kansas Chancellors Club professor and researcher award recipients include two internationally known professors — a philosophy professor on the Lawrence campus and a pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics professor at the KU Medical Center.
Continue readingBack in the Swing gives $300,000 for breast cancer survivors
A $300,000 gift from Back in the Swing USA will help breast cancer survivors find the answer to the question “What’s next?”
Continue readingGiving to KU reaches $110.2 million, a new milestone
For the third year in a row, contributions to KU Endowment in support of the University of Kansas reached a new record.
Continue readingKU alumnus contributes more than $400,000 to School of Musicmuseum
Some might call him the Music Man.
Continue reading$200,000 in gifts bring Spencer Museum closer to reaching challenge grant
Two $100,000 gifts for the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas bring the museum closer to meeting a $1 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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