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Gift from KU alumni creates scholarship for hometown students

Retired automotive chairman Robert Eaton and his wife, Connie Drake Eaton, both KU alumni, established the Eaton Scholarship at KU with a $1 million gift.

Michigan Jayhawks’ giving spans decades, multiple KU programs

University of Kansas alumni Thomas D. Bath, PhD, and Barbara Blake Bath, PhD, met at KU in 1958 and have been a dedicated team — in life and in their philanthropic support of their alma mater —ever since.

Lockton family gives $2 million to expand insurance certificate program at KU School of Business

A $2 million gift from the family of the late Jack Lockton will support the expansion of the insurance and risk management certificate program at the University of Kansas School of Business.

KU alumnus gives $2 million gift for engineering, law schools

A gift from the estate of late University of Kansas alumnus Dean Frisbie provides $1 million to the School of Law and $1 million to the School of Engineering.

KU Endowment board members elect four new trustees

At the annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees on Oct. 15, four new trustees were elected: Kannon Shanmugam of Great Falls, Virginia; Petra Tasheff of New York, New York; Elizabeth Boldridge Tovar of Iowa City, Iowa; and Frank Tsuru of Houston, Texas.