At today’s annual meeting of the KU Endowment Board of Trustees, four new trustees were elected: Angela Chammas of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois; Marvin Motley of Leawood, Kansas; Diane Yetter of Chicago; and Carl Krehbiel, of Moundridge, Kansas.
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KU Endowment provided $184.6 million in direct financial support for the University of Kansas and The University of Kansas Hospital in fiscal year 2015, which ended June 30. This represents a 48 percent increase over last year’s amount of $124.1 million.
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University of Kansas professor of mathematics Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, Ph.D., has been selected to receive a Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship. The award will provide a salary stipend of $10,000 for each of the next five years.
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A University of Kansas Medical Center researcher who has discovered compounds that give hope to patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease and other genetic blood disorders, and a longtime KU English professor revered by students and colleagues alike are being honored respectively for their research and teaching by KU Endowment’s Chancellors Club.
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Donors supporting the University of Kansas contributed $258.8 million in fiscal 2015, which ended June 30.
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On a visit to the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, you would be hard pressed to find someone who did not know the work and impact of Sandy Mason.
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For more than a century, the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks have added spirit and music to KU football games. Next fall, the 270-member marching band will return to Memorial Stadium with yet another crowd-pleaser in store — new uniforms in KU’s colors — crimson and blue.
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A $1 million gift from The Bernard Osher Foundation will strengthen an endowed fund that benefits the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a unit of Continuing Education at the University of Kansas.
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Keith and Laurie Tennant, of Vero Beach, Florida, have made a $1 million gift commitment to support research near and dear to their hearts.
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University of Kansas alumni who are partners and employees of BKD — one of the largest CPA firms in the nation — have contributed more than $300,000 toward construction of a new home for the KU School of Business. Construction began this spring, and the new building will open its doors for classes in fall 2016.
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