Longtime University of Texas donors Joe and Teresa Lozano Long (center) have given $25 million to the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio. They are pictured with William Henrich, the center's president, and participants in a scholarship program funded by the couple.<\/p>\n
A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle: <\/p>\n
Joe and Teresa Lozano Long gave $25 million for medical programs and scholarships at the research and education campus in San Antonio. <\/p>\n
The couple directed $20 million of the gift to the Presidents Endowment for Faculty Excellence in Medicine, $4 million to endow scholarships for medical students, and $1 million to endow the position of dean. <\/p>\n
The Longs both earned doctorates from the University of Texas at Austin. They started their careers as high-school teachers. Mr. Long later became a lawyer and a banker. Ms. Long served as a consultant for the Texas Education Agencys State Compensatory Education program, the U.S. Education Departments Office of Migrant Education, and the federal Head Start program. <\/p>\n
Charles and Helen Schwab donated $25 million to construct a new building for the Department of Music and the Sacred Music at Notre Dame program. <\/p>\n
Mr. Schwab founded investment firm the Charles Schwab Corporation. The new building will be named for Ms. Schwabs brother, Joseph ONeill III, a Notre Dame alumnus and university trustee. <\/p>\n
Jeffrey Feil and his family donated $12.5 million to the New York medical school to create a new student center with spaces for classes, collaborative projects, advanced patient-care training, and student activities. <\/p>\n
Mr. Feil leads the Feil Organization, a New York real-estate company that was started by his father. The family has given about $90 million to Weill Cornell to date. <\/p>\n
Margaret McDermott gave $10 million to endow undergraduate research in the Hobson Wildenthal Honors College, named, at the donors request, for the universitys chief academic officer. <\/p>\n
Ms. McDermott is the widow of Eugene McDermott, a geophysicist who co-founded Texas Instruments and helped start the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest, which later became UT Dallas. He died in 1973. <\/p>\n
Judith Blake pledged $8 million for scholarships for students in the business college and to support those participating in the universitys Shoals Marine Laboratory and its Northeast Passage program, which pursues barrier-free recreation opportunities for people with disabilities. <\/p>\n
Ms. Blake is a retired marketing executive and 1977 graduate of the university. She mentors students and teaches classes on beverage management. Ten years ago she endowed a scholarship fund for business students, to which this new gift is added. <\/p>\n
Linda La Kretz Duttenhaver and her father, Morton La Kretz, committed $6 million to establish the La Kretz Research Center at Sedgwick Reserve, a site for ecological education and study. Some of the money will endow a professorship and fellowships for graduate students conducting research at the reserve. <\/p>\n
Ms. Duttenhaver, a public-relations executive, graduated from the university in 1977 and gave it $2 million in 2014 to renovate a ranch house on the Sedgwick Reserve that hosts visiting researchers. <\/p>\n
Mr. La Kretz founded Crossroads Management, a property-management company. <\/p>\n
Usha and Mahadeb Kundu gave more than $5 million for academic programs and equipment for researchers at the universitys College of Health, which will be named for the donors. <\/p>\n
Ms. Kundu is a physician and her husband is an engineer. He earned his MBA from the university in 1992 and served as an adjunct professor there from 1984 to 1986. <\/p>\n
To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week. <\/p>\n
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