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Fund provides performing arts access to Sabetha students

KU alumni Kent and Donna Saylor of Sabetha, Kansas, have established a performing arts fund to provide Sabetha public school students free access to Lied Center programming.

Gift from Chicago couple creates new center in KU School of Business

Roger and Julie Davis, of Chicago, have made a combined outright and planned gift commitment of $7.2 million, which will enable the University of Kansas School of Business to create a Center for Figure Sense.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants $250,000 for KU’s Community Tool Box

Talk about timely. In 1995, when the Internet’s popularity was soaring, the University of Kansas Work Group for Community Health and Development launched the Community Tool Box website — a free resource to help communities at home and abroad improve health and development.

Kansas couple plan to leave 120-acre ranch to University of Kansas

From their home amid the rolling hills of northeast Kansas, a couple have made a gift commitment to leave their 120-acre ranch for the University of Kansas.

$16 million gift honors late KU alumnus Donald C. Slawson

The family of University of Kansas alumnus Donald C. Slawson has made a $16 million lead gift for construction of a hall to be located in KU’s planned Earth, Energy and Environment Center.

Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation makes $1 million gift to renovate KU recital hall

The Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, of Kansas City, Mo., has made a $1 million leadership gift to renovate Swarthout Recital Hall at the University of Kansas.

Donors score a victory for Jayhawk collection

Thanks to the generosity of James J. Ascher Sr., and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Overland Park, Kan., a 1,000-piece collection of Jayhawks now has a permanent home at the University of Kansas.

KU alumna makes $1 million gift commitment for KU

Honoring her late husband’s wishes, KU alumna Barbara Werbe Meek, of Baton Rouge, La., has made a $1 million gift commitment to provide unrestricted support for the University of Kansas.

Late KUMC dean and her husband leave $10 million estate gift for scholarships and libraries

A $10 million estate gift from Stata Norton Ringle and David Ringle will create scholarships for students in the University of Kansas Medical Center’s School of Health Professions and provide support for libraries at the medical center and on KU’s Lawrence campus.