The Clifford and Eleanor Malone Scholarship has been established at the University of Kansas to aid students who are the first generation in their family to attend college.
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Cancer survivor’s mission to help others
When Floriene Lieberman beat breast cancer for the second time, she made a promise that she has lived up to every day since.
Continue readingMichigan 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.
Continue readingArkansas couple leave legacy to benefit architecture program, Alzheimer’s research
Scott and Jeannette Davies are shining examples of leaving a legacy at the University of Kansas and KU Medical Center.
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
Continue readingScholarship honors couple’s dedication to KU and to their community
The family of Phil and Helen Everley wanted to recognize the couple’s love of education and service to their community of Eudora, Kan.
Continue readingEstate plans to benefit disabled students at KU
On a winter morning, you’re likely to find The Rev. Brinton W. “Pete” Woodward Jr. maple sugaring at his home on Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire.
Continue readingGift creates professorship, curatorship at KU, Biodiversity Institute
A gift from Edith L. Taylor and the late Thomas N. Taylor, both University of Kansas professors and paleobotanists, will create a joint professorship and curatorship in the department of ecology & evolutionary biology and the Biodiversity Institute at KU.
Continue readingProfessor’s phone call provided pivotal moment for KU student
As a junior at the University of Kansas, an unexpected phone call from a professor put Bill Plybon back on track to major in accounting.
Continue readingFollowing support for scholarships, Cochran makes gift for new business building
University of Kansas alumnus Norm Cochran has made a $100,000 gift toward a new building for the KU School of Business.
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