News Releases About Major Gifts to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ
Dates indicate approximately when the news item was posted on the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ website.
2009
— The Val and Frank Late Fountain, madeÌý possible by a gift from Valeria Late of Dallas,Ìýwas dedicatedÌýon March 5 on the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus. (3/5/2009)
2008
— The Noel family of Houston endows the deanship of Dedman School of Law, currently held by John B. Attanasio. (12/5/2008)
— ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is naming its School of Engineering in honor of Bobby B. Lyle, a Dallas entrepreneur and industry leader. (10/17/2008)
— ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ launches the largest fund-raising campaign in its history to dramatically increase academic quality and impact. (9/12/2008)
— A $4 million gift to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ from former Texas Governor William P. Clements, Jr. (ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ '39) and his wife, Rita, will support improvements in facilities at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-in-Taos, the University's campus in northern New Mexico. Other donors have provided more than $900,000 in additional gifts. (7/7/2008)
— A $1 million gift from John C. and Debbie Tolleson of DallasÌý will provide additional support for the Edwin L. Cox BBA Scholars Program in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Cox School of Business. (04/28/08)
— A gift of more than $10 million from the Honorable Roy M. Huffington of Houston is a boost to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Department of Earth Sciences, which is being renamed in his honor. (03/27/08)
— The Perkins School of Theology at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has received a $1 million gift from Barbara Cook Wendland and Erroll Wendland to establish the Wendland-Cook Professorship in Constructive Theology. (03/14/08)
— Delores M. Etter, a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will be the director of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's new Caruth Institute for Engineering Education and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Engineering Education. (03/10/08)
— D. Scott Luttrell (BBA '77) and David B. Miller (BBA '72 and MBA '73) have helped Cox create an undergraduate curriculum in alternative asset management. (03/03/08)
— A $3.6 million gift to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ from Caren ProthroÌý and the Perkins-Prothro Foundation will establish the C. Vin Prothro Biological Sciences Initiative at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. (01/14/07)
2007
— Catherine Perrine, wife of the late ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ English professor and textbook author Laurence Perrine, bequeaths $3.3 million to the University to fund scholarships and endow a faculty chair in the English Department. (11/19/07)
— A landmark $20 million gift from Harold C. and Annette C. Simmons will provide endowment for ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s School of Education and Human Development and the lead gift for a new building to house the School.(11/09/07)
— Dallas oilman Edwin L. Cox has given $5 million to support merit-based undergraduate scholarships at the school that bears his name – ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's Edwin L. Cox School of Business. (10/19/07)
— The gift from the W.W. Caruth Foundation at Communities Foundation of Texas is designed to spark K-12 students’ interest in science and engineering presents the opportunity to inspire and shape our nation’s innovators long before they submit their first college application. (10/11/07)
— A new $250,000 research endowment fund honoring ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Anthropology Professor Robert Van Kemper has been established through a bequest from his late mentor and teacher George M. Foster Jr. at the University of California at Berkeley. (08/17/07)
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— A gift of $6 million to ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ from the Perkins-Prothro family of Wichita Falls will launch a building program for Perkins School of Theology. (01/19/07)
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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2001
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2000
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