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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.

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.

Engineering alumnus leaves $2 million gift to department

A gift of more than $2 million from the late KU alumnus John Bossi of Arkansas City, Kansas, will benefit the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas.

Gift endows chemical engineering fund at KU

A $1 million dollar gift commitment from a retired University of Kansas engineering faculty member will endow a fund named in honor of four influential professors.

Retired KU educator’s gift commitment establishes Melville professorship

A gift commitment from Elizabeth Schultz, professor emerita of English at the University of Kansas, will provide $1.5 million for the Herman Melville Distinguished Professorship in the Department of English. Schultz taught at KU from 1967 to 2001.

Gifts establish medical oncology professorship at KU Med

A $1.3 million challenge grant from the Hall Family Foundation sparked a gift commitment of $650,000 from the Sunderland Family Fund, and together the gifts will establish the A. Drue Jennings Professorship in Medical Oncology at The University of Kansas Medical Center.

Gift turns professorship into Chair of Ophthalmology at KU

KU alumnus Luther Fry and his wife, Ardis, of Garden City, Kansas, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $1 million, which will support an Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology at the University of Kansas.

Math instructor’s legacy extends far beyond University of Kansas

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.

From medical research to American literature, 2015 Chancellors Club professors cover many bases

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.

Major gift creates an enticing package for ‘rising stars’ in the humanities at KU

Since the founding of the University of Kansas 150 years ago, courses in the humanities have been the bedrock of a KU education. To further strengthen the humanities at KU, the Hall Family Foundation has made a $1.46 million combination gift and challenge grant.