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.
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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.
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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.
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A $300,000 gift from Back in the Swing USA will help breast cancer survivors find the answer to the question “What’s next?”
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For the third year in a row, contributions to KU Endowment in support of the University of Kansas reached a new record.
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Some might call him the Music Man.
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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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When Nelson Gipson realized how close to death he was, he summoned his attorney.
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A University of Kansas professor who pioneered the theory of psychological reactance, also known as “reverse psychology,” has donated $2.2 million for KU’s Department of Psychology.
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Nationally known University of Kansas debate coach Scott Harris is the inaugural recipient of a new teaching professorship award thanks to a gift from former Chancellor Gene Budig and his wife, Gretchen.
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