Foundation News
Announcements about major gifts to the University are distributed to local media, UA News and other outlets.
First Recipients of 1885 Society Fellowships and UA Excellence Graduate Fellowships Announced
The UA Graduate College has announced the first recipients of two graduate fellowship programs: the 1885 Society Graduate Fellowships in Fine Arts and Humanities, and the UA Excellence Graduate Fellowships in the Social Sciences. Read more.
UA Eller College of Management Receives $4.5M in Faculty Funding
Gifts from alumni and friends are creating endowed chairs in three departments. Read more.
Helios Education Foundation $750,000 Grant
The Jr. BIOTECH program connects middle school science teachers with the resources and training necessary to lead hands-on, inquiry-based science activities in the classroom. Read more.
John W. Olsen Receives Faculty Fundraising Award
The University of Arizona Foundation has honored John W. Olsen with the second annual Eugene G. Sander Endowed Faculty Fundraising Award. Read more.
UA College of Medicine Receives $2M Scholarship Gift
The late Estella Hill, a native of Arizona, requested that her life savings create an endowed scholarship fund for students to attend medical school in order to create compassionate medical care in the community. Read more.
Shaun Sommerer Hired as Vice President for Arizona Health Sciences Development
Sommerer previously served as the Associate Vice President of Development at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where his responsibilities included oversight of the UNLV Division of Health Sciences Development. Read more.
Udall Center Receives W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant To Study Native American Health Care
The Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy (NNI), part of The University of Arizona’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, is studying tribal health care strategies, looking for health care solutions that can be replicated by other American Indian nations. Read more.
Ford Foundation Awards $200,000 Grant to UA Research on Gender and Sexuality Norms in Schools
The Ford Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to The University of Arizona’s Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families to support research on school safety as associated with adolescents’ experiences of gender, sexuality and conformity. Read more.
UA in the News
Gates Foundation grant will help improve immunity of African staple crop
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $1.3 million grant to researchers at the University of Arizona to lead an international team in developing a genome variation database... Read more.
University of Arizona researchers seek safer cystic fibrosis test
Researchers from The University of Arizona Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine are teaming up to try to invent a novel non-invasive lung test for cystic fibrosis sufferers. Read more.
A Scientist of Flight Wins an Honor Intended to Keep Him in Place
As a boy, Hermann F. Fasel used to spend hours on the weekends gazing out his window, watching gliders soar through the skies near his hometown, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. Read more.
Major Gift to Create Endowed Chair in Animal Sciences
A $1.25 million estate gift in the names of Roy R. and Phyllis Hislop and also William J. and Rosina Ede. It has resulted in the creation of an endowed chair position in animal sciences at the UA. Read more.
