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Dates indicate approximately when the news item was posted on the ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ website.

2009

— The Val and Frank Late Fountain, madeÌý possible by a gift from Valeria Late of Dallas,Ìýwas dedicatedÌýon March 5 on the ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ 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)

— ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ is naming its School of Engineering in honor of Bobby B. Lyle, a Dallas entrepreneur and industry leader. (10/17/2008)

— ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ launches the largest fund-raising campaign in its history to dramatically increase academic quality and impact. (9/12/2008)

— A $4 million gift to ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ from former Texas Governor William P. Clements, Jr. (ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ '39) and his wife, Rita, will support improvements in facilities at ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½-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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½'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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½'s Department of Earth Sciences, which is being renamed in his honor. (03/27/08)

— The Perkins School of Theology at ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ 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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½'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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ from Caren ProthroÌý and the Perkins-Prothro Foundation will establish the C. Vin Prothro Biological Sciences Initiative at ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½. (01/14/07)

2007

— Catherine Perrine, wife of the late ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ 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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½â€™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 – ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½'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 ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ 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)

(02/13/07)

— A gift of $6 million to ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ from the Perkins-Prothro family of Wichita Falls will launch a building program for Perkins School of Theology. (01/19/07)

2006

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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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