An anonymous donor has committed $900,000 to endow the directorship for the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas.
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One Day. One KU. 24-hour giving campaign returns for third year
The spirit behind One Day. One KU., the annual 24-hour giving campaign, is that one day can make a big difference to the University of Kansas.
Continue readingGift creates new study center at KU’s Spencer Museum of Art
A $900,000 gift from the J.K. and Ingrid Lee Foundation will create a study center at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas that will improve access to works of art from the Spencer’s collection for students and researchers.
Continue readingGifts benefit study of mammals, Natural History Museum at KU
The late KU professor Robert Wilson’s passion and preeminent scholarly achievements in teaching and studying the evolution of small mammals has inspired gift commitments totaling $950,000 from colleagues, friends and family—in particular, three women.
Continue readingKU Endowment retains real estate advisors
KU Endowment has retained an advisory firm to evaluate future development options for several KU Endowment-owned sites adjacent to the University of Kansas Lawrence campus, including the recreation fields known as the Shenk Sports Complex at the corner of Iowa Street and Clinton Parkway.
Continue readingWinter family accelerates $1.7 million gift to law, athletics
For KU alumni Nancy and Wint Winter Sr., the only thing as satisfying as giving was seeing the good a gift could do.
Continue readingKU Endowment board members elect new vice chair, trustee
A blizzard may have blanketed Mount Oread on Feb. 17, but the
heartwarming generosity of donors everywhere made the
fifth-annual One Day. One KU. giving day a rousing success.
Chancellors Club Award recipients specialize in drug research and mathematics education
A cancer geneticist at the University of Kansas Medical Center and a longtime professor of journalism at the University of Kansas will be honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.
Continue readingEmporia couple commit $1 million in support of KU School of Medicine-Wichita
KU alumnus Scott Smiley and Julie Smiley want to be a part of educating doctors who will care for generations of patients.
Continue readingLove for KU spans generations, spurs faithful support
Why do we consistently give to KU? The answer to the question spans many years, first going back to my dad’s (Robert Lawrence Piper, KU class of 1927) high school years. And I know this because he wrote in his memoirs
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