Nearly three years ago, the face of the University of Oklahoma changed dramatically with a transformational gift of $10 million from Charles and Lynn Schusterman to create a unified and permanent home for OU-Tulsa through the purchase of the Amoco Research Center at 41st and Yale. President David L. Boren and the Schustermans had a vision for e...

The University of Oklahoma is instilling a reinvigorated sense of

“pride” in the renowned Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band. A $1.5 million

campaign was launched recently to address the needs of the 99-year-old

organization, which is recognized as one of the country’s best marching

bands. To date, approximately $...

Among the 2003-2004 Class of Presidential Professors who fit this

definition are two who received newly established awards.

Ellen

Green, associate professor of classics and letters, was named the first

Joseph Paxton Presidential Professor. U.S. Ambassador Robert McKinney, a

1932 OU alumnus and New Mexic...

Long-time Sooner fan JoAnna Newman cherishes her memories of the

excitement and fun of OU football gamedays. A blue-ribbon cook and

gardener, Newman remembers making sandwiches on Saturday mornings to

take to the game. She recalls the close, friendly atmosphere in the

stadium’s north end zone, Section 13, where...

With their health care costs going up and salaries staying level, OU

employees did something extraordinary in 2003: they continued to give

to the annual Campus Campaign in record numbers.

The 2003 Campus

Campaign rivaled the record-breaking 2002 results, with overall

participation for active and retired...

A testamentary gift from the late Fred Brown, of Lake Placid, New

York-$500,000 for art acquisitions at OU’s Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of

Natural History-is an exclamation point in the story of unending

generosity in a longstanding relationship between Brown and his wife,

Enid, and the alma mater he loved.

Three new members were elected to fill vacancies on the University of

Oklahoma Foundation Inc. Board of Trustees at the regular quarterly

meeting August 30, held at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma

City. The board then reviewed the treasurer’s report for fiscal year

2002-2003, ending June 30, 2003. Tot...

The Tulsa oilman and attorney whose devotion to the cause of higher

education included 15 years as a University of Oklahoma Foundation

trustee died September 26. He was 89.

A native of Hartshorne,

Rothbaum was OU student body president in 1936, the year he earned his

bachelor’s degree; he received a law...

The Inasmuch Foundation is continuing its work for “the least of these”

with a grant of $189,000 to train professionals in treating and

preventing the maltreatment of children. This three-year grant is being

awarded to the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of

Pediatrics at the OU Health Science...

The Mervin Bovaird Foundation of Tulsa has awarded a $100,000 challenge

grant to the OU - Tulsa College of Medicine to implement a new model in

health care designed to provide better access to health care by the

area’s neediest citizens through the establishment of the Bedlam

Community Health Clinic.

Th...

“If You Build It, They Will Give” might be the headline for fund

raising in the University of Oklahoma’s 2003 fiscal year.

Exciting

capital projects on the OU campus were a major reason that, despite a

national downturn in philanthropic support for higher education, OU

recorded its third straight year in...

Edward Brandt, M.D., remembers every detail of the day nearly four

decades ago that Stewart G. Wolf changed his life. The incident, said

Brandt, who earned a 1954 bachelor’s degree in math from OU and his M.D.

in 1960, speaks volumes about the beloved former College of Medicine

professor and why contributions ha...

John and Mary Nichols, of Oklahoma City, whose gift in 1998 created the first endowed faculty position in the School of Dance, have made an additional $250,000 gift to upgrade the professorship to an endowed chair. Designated for the director of the School of Dance, the Nichols Chair is held by Mary Margaret Holt, an award-winning professor.
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The $2 million Sooner Heritage Scholarship Campaign, announced in January 2003 by OU President David L. Boren, is off to a great start, with $677,000 raised to date.

Boren launched the campaign to help students with the anticipated $800 annual increase in tuition and fees. The increases were necessitated by Oklahoma’s current budget crisis...

The University of Oklahoma’s collection of art by members of the Taos Society of Artists, also known as the Taos Colony, is now one of the largest in the country following a gift of a collection valued at an estimated $5 million. The William H. and Roxanne Thams Collection was contributed by OU alumnus William H. Thams in memory of his late wife...

he renovation and expansion of the University of Oklahoma’s historic Holmberg Hall, creating the Donald W. Reynolds Performing Arts Center, is proceeding right on schedule, as is the endowment campaign being conducted to ensure its beauty for generations to come.

The $17.9 million project, funded with a $12.2 million grant from the Donald...

In April 7, ground was broken for Gaylord Hall, the $17 million future home of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Less than three weeks later on April 27, Edward L. Gaylord, patriarch of the family whose contribution is making the new facility a reality, died in Oklahoma City.

OU President Dav...

roundbreaking for Michael F. Price Hall—the 55,000-square-foot, $19 million addition to Adams Hall, home of the Michael F. Price College of Business—was held Friday, April 25, at the site, located at the corner of Asp Avenue and Brooks Street. The building will be named in honor of Wall Street investor whose support and involvement has helped the...

treasurer’s report of third quarter financial activities and

an overview of the investment portfolio performance highlighted the May

9, 2003, meeting of the University of Oklahoma Foundation Board of

Trustees in Norman. The trustees also paid tribute...

pril 3 was a great day of lots of cheers and a few tears as famed

television and movie actor James Garner returned to the town and the

campus where he grew up to make a $500,000 gift to endow the first

faculty chair in the long history of the OU Schoo...

For almost a century, Senior Class Gift projects at the

University of Oklahoma have allowed OU graduates to pay tribute to their

class at OU and leave behind a more beautiful campus in the process.

From entrance arches to special fountains and from th...

For almost a century, Senior Class Gift projects at the

University of Oklahoma have allowed OU graduates to pay tribute to their

class at OU and leave behind a more beautiful campus in the process.

From entrance arches to special fountains and from th...

A $40,000 cash prize honoring the creative process has been

established at the University of Oklahoma Foundation by a grant from

Oklahoma City resident Jeanne Hoffman Smith. The first biennial

Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize, which focuses on recognizing people who

enrich the lives of others through the creativity...

Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize

established



A $40,000 cash prize honoring the creative process has been

established at the University of Oklahoma Foundation by a grant from

Ok...

ildred D. Taylor, one of the foremost writers for young

people in the United States for nearly three decades, has been named

laureate of the inaugural $25,000 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s

Literature, awarded by the University of Oklahoma and its international

q...

For parts of two basketball seasons, fans

attending the men’s and women’s games peered over and around barricades

to catch glimpses of the construction that was transforming Lloyd Noble

Center into one of the country’s finest basketball complexes. Th...

he story of All-American Roy Williams and the University of

Oklahoma has been built on achievements of lasting impact. A national

championship, the Big 12 crown, the Jim Thorpe Award, the Bronko

Nagurski Award and, of course, "the play" in the Sooners...