News Categories: KU Endowment

Inaugural 24-hour giving campaign One Day. One KU raises $734,621

During One Day. One KU., the university’s first 24-hour giving campaign, donors gave 1,898 gifts totaling $734,621, creating opportunities for more Jayhawks in the state, the nation and beyond.

Gifts totalling $1.4 million help advance KU Alzheimer’s Disease Center research initiatives

Several Kansas City-area community members have made a combined gift commitment of $1.4 million to the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Center to enable it to expand its research and double its capacity for clinical trials.

Alumna makes $1 million gift for environmental studies fund

A gift commitment of more than $1 million from KU alumna Tracy Ashlock will establish a travel fund for environmental studies students at the University of Kansas.

KU plans first 24-hour day of giving with One Day. One KU.

On Tuesday, Feb. 20, alumni and friends from all over the world will come together to support the University of Kansas for its first 24-hour giving campaign, One Day. One KU.

KU recognizes five educators with Chancellors Club professorships

Five professors from the University of Kansas may be experts in widely different fields, but they all share one important distinction: Their excellence as educators has earned them prestigious Chancellors Club Teaching Professorships in 2017.

KU Endowment elects three new trustees

At the annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees on Oct. 6, 2017, three new trustees were elected: Joanna Rupp of Chicago; Elizabeth A. Schartz of Dallas; and R. Todd Slawson of Denver.

2017 Chancellors Club professors specialize in cancer prevention, business law

A University of Kansas Medical Center cancer researcher and a longtime business law professor will be honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.

KU Endowment celebrates 125th anniversary

The fundraising foundation for the University of Kansas, KU Endowment, is celebrating a banner anniversary: 125 years since its inception as the first foundation for a public university in the country.

2016 Chancellors Club professors specialize in genetic disorders, astronomy

A University of Kansas Medical Center professor and researcher in genetic disorders, and a longtime astronomy and physics professor will be honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.

Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas raises more than $1.6 billion

The largest higher education fundraising effort to date in the state, Far Above: The Campaign for Kansas, raised $1.66 billion, far exceeding its $1.2 billion goal.