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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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 readingGift from KU alumnus establishes military history professorship
A KU alumnus with an interest in history and experience in the Army Reserve has established a professorship in military history at the University of Kansas.
Continue readingKU recognizes two educators with Chancellors Club professorships
Two professors from the University of Kansas Medical Center, both well known as scientists, researchers and educators, now share an additional distinction of being recognized as Chancellors Club Teaching Professors for 2018.
Continue readingChancellors Club award recipients specialize in cancer research, journalism
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 readingProfessorship established in honor of Kansas City civic leader
The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City, Missouri, has made a $500,000 gift to create the Robert Almy Kipp Professorship of Practice in City Management at the University of Kansas.
Continue reading$2 million gift establishes diabetes professorship at KU Medical Center
A $2 million gift from the Cray Medical Research Foundation of Atchison, Kansas, will establish a diabetes-focused professorship at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Continue reading$2 million gift to establish law scholarship, liberal arts research fund at KU
KU alumnus William “Brad” Bradley Jr., of Overland Park, Kansas, has made a $2 million gift commitment that will endow a scholarship in the School of Law and a research excellence fund for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas.
Continue reading$1 million gift endows professorship at KU Medical Center
A gift commitment from longtime faculty member Dennis Diederich, M.D., and his wife, Alice, will provide $1 million to endow a professorship at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Continue readingKU 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.
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