Campaign News Releases

The following UI Foundation news releases cover gifts made during the Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign.

• Scenes from the Good. Better. Best. Iowa Campaign Victory Celebration
  May 10, 2006
• University of Iowa's $1 billion campaign surpasses goal by $58 million
  February 6, 2006
• Gifts totaling $6.2 million to create major genetic testing lab
  February 3, 2006
• Panama native creates scholarship to repay Iowans for UI education
  January 19, 2006
• Iowa City man gives $1 million in scholarships for 8 UI sports
  January 10, 2006
• UI graduate contributes $250,000 to UI's insurance institute
  December 30, 2005
• UI graduate contributes $250,000 to UI's insurance institute
  December 30, 2005
• Online giving to UI in 2005 passes $1 million mark
  December 16, 2005
• Tippie gift endows UI business college deanship
  December 16, 2005
• UI alumna makes gift for UI's rowing program in Christine Grant's honor
  December 15, 2005
• UI alumnus gives $825,000 to support UI law school, athletics
  December 9, 2005
• AthletiCo founder, president creates UI Athletic Training professorship
  December 7, 2005
• UI's "Good. Better. Best. Iowa" campaign hits $1 billion goal
  November 29, 2005
• UI Alumni Association commits $100,000 to UI Old Capitol Museum
  November 18, 2005
• Mix 96 radiothon success benefits Children's Hospital of Iowa patients
  November 16, 2005
• Mix 96 to broadcast Children's Miracle Network radiothon
  November 4, 2005
• UI dedicates Pomerantz Center Oct. 21
  October 20, 2005
• Iowa Lions, UI Hospitals and Clinics to dedicate donor memorial
  October 6, 2005
• WSUI/KSUI fall fund drive set for October 14-21
  September 21, 2005
• UI to dedicate Adler journalism building Sept. 30
  September 21, 2005
• $1 million gift creates professorship in UI anesthesia department
  September 20, 2005
• Alumna establishes two scholarships for CLAS students from Iowa
  September 14, 2005
• KHAK radiothon to benefit Children's Hospital of Iowa
  September 13, 2005
• Y105 radiothon raises $79,000 for Children's Miracle Network
  September 12, 2005
• $2.85 million Carver grant to aid chemistry building, faculty
  September 1, 2005
• Y105 will broadcast Children's Miracle Network radiothon in Dubuque
  August 25, 2005
• Alumni support breathes new life into the campus landscape
  August 18, 2005
• Children's Hospital of Iowa to open renovated patient care unit
  July 26, 2005
• Carver grant to help UI Libraries update Information Arcade
  June 22, 2005
• Former CBS radio personality creates UI Communication Studies fund
  June 21, 2005
• Radiothon benefits families at Children's Hospital of Iowa
  June 3, 2005
• Des Moines couple creates Presidential Scholarship for UI business students
  May 12, 2005
• UI professors' gift creates endowments
  May 3, 2005
• WSUI/KSUI raises record-breaking $223,000 during spring fund drive
  April 14, 2005
• $1 million gift to open up arts avenue for UI's Belin-Blank Center
  March 31, 2005
• Gift from UI alumnus creates graduate fellowship
  March 22, 2005
• Grad creates discretionary, scholarship funds for UI journalism school
  March 8, 2005
• UI center awarded Carver Trust grant to study cleft lip and palate
  March 2, 2005
• $1 million gift supports UI English and ophthalmology departments
  February 24, 2005
• Hawkeye scholarship recipients, donors honored
  February 22, 2005
• UI Pomerantz Center receives $250,000 from John Deere Foundation
  February 21, 2005
• University of Iowa Foundation marks record-breaking year in private gifts
  February 14, 2005
• Wellmark Foundation supports UI cardiovascular, diabetes programs
  January 12, 2005
• UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication receives $150,000 in gifts
  January 11, 2005
• $100,000 AEGON gift creates endowed UI student scholarship fund
  January 6, 2005
• $100,000 gift to UI College of Law creates intellectual property law scholarship
  December 22, 2004
• ACT donation to create Belin-Blank math, science curriculum lab
  December 22, 2004
• Report from the fourth annual UI Scholarship Recognition Luncheon
  December 16, 2004
• Campaign launched to give Old Capitol Museum new life
  December 8, 2004
• UI campaign announces progress on student support goal
  December 1, 2004
• Gift helps UI pediatric brain tumor research
  November 22, 2004
• UI's new Ashton Cross Country Course to be dedicated Oct. 31
  October 29, 2004
• Silent auction to benefit cancer patients
  October 28, 2004
• Charitable arm of Rockwell Collins gives $250,000 to UI's Pomerantz Center
  October 18, 2004
• Amenity Foundation establishes nursing scholarship
  October 13, 2004
• WSUI/KSUI ask for donor support
  October 12, 2004
• Greek Orthodox Ladies donate life-saving technology to Children's Hospital of Iowa
  October 1, 2004
• UI campaign reaches goal of 100 new endowed faculty positions
  September 29, 2004
• $290,000 in gifts support UI Institute of Risk Management and Insurance
  September 22, 2004
• UI graduate, family give $5 million to Kinnick Stadium campaign
  September 10, 2004
• Bedell gift names UI student entrepreneurship program
  September 10, 2004
• Y105-FM to broadcast Children's Miracle Network radiothon
  September 9, 2004
• Des Moines couple makes major gift to UI Law, Health Policy and Disability Center
  September 8, 2004
• $5.5 million Olson estate gift benefits multiple UI programs
  September 1, 2004
• B100 radiothon benefits patients and families
  August 25, 2004
• B100 99.7 radiothon to benefit Children's Miracle Network
  August 13, 2004
• KHAK-FM radiothon benefits Children's Hospital of Iowa
  July 30, 2004
• $250,000 gift to help UI retain key Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty
  July 12, 2004
• Public invited to Blank Honors Center open house, dedication July 2
  June 9, 2004
• Radiothon to benefit Children's Miracle Network
  May 21, 2004
• UI increases "Good. Better. Best. Iowa" campaign goal to $1 billion
  April 29, 2004
• $2.1 million gift to provide University of Iowa organ scholarships
  April 26, 2004
• New professorship honors UI Law Dean N. William Hines
  April 19, 2004
• Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center receives $2.5 million gift
  April 15, 2004
• Davenport math teacher creates University of Iowa scholarship
  April 7, 2004
• WSUI/KSUI raises record-breaking $219,000 during spring fund drive
  April 6, 2004
• Hearst Foundation adds $100,000 to UI nursing scholarship fund
  March 30, 2004
• UI Honors Program to hold open house at new location
  March 26, 2004
• Gift to UI Writers' Workshop creates first-ever faculty fellowship
  February 12, 2004
• Allied Insurance commits $1.5 million to UI Insurance Institute
  February 3, 2004
• Hawkeye scholarship recipients, donors honored
  January 13, 2004
• UI engineering graduate endows Center for Technical Communication
  January 13, 2004
• Center makes UI first to offer K-college gifted student support
  December 31, 2003
• Charitable arm of Rockwell Collins gives $100,000 to UI Engineering
  December 4, 2003
• 2003 Carver College of Medicine student scholarship awards luncheon
  November 19, 2003
• 2003 Carver College of Medicine student scholarship awards luncheon
  November 19, 2003
• Lee newspapers in Iowa give $100,000 to UI journalism building campaign
  November 6, 2003
• A "sneak preview" of the Blank Honors Center
  November 5, 2003
• UI Department of Theatre Arts receives $825,000 gift
  November 4, 2003
• UI Parents Association makes $100,000 gift for new Pomerantz Center
  October 21, 2003
• Buckwalter named Steindler Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery
  October 15, 2003
• WSUI/KSUI holds annual fall fund drive
  October 15, 2003
• Alumnus thanks UI College of Engineering with $100,000 scholarship fund
  October 9, 2003
• Pomerantz Center ceremony honors namesakes
  October 8, 2003
• Report from the second annual Named Deanships, Chairs and Professorships Recognition Luncheon
  October 7, 2003
• UI campaign passes $660 million mark
  October 3, 2003
• UI Alumni Association commits $1 million to new Pomerantz Center
  October 1, 2003
• Contributors' gifts endow Steindler Chair
  September 30, 2003
• Images from the dedication ceremony for the Gerdin Athletic Learning Center
  September 25, 2003
• UI's Gerdin Athletic Learning Center dedicated
  September 5, 2003
• Education college ePortfolio project nets $215,150 Carver grant
  August 13, 2003
• Carver College of Medicine receives $190,000 IMS gift
  August 11, 2003
• Pearson Educational Measurement makes $250,000 gift for new UI Pomerantz Center
  June 26, 2003
• UI renames famed lab for Iowa legend C. Maxwell Stanley
  June 20, 2003
• UI Libraries to benefit from estate gift of more than $900,000
  May 30, 2003
• UI Foundation receives $125,000 gift from John Deere Foundation
  May 20, 2003
• Images from a dedication and groundbreaking on the UI Health Sciences campus
  May 15, 2003
• WSUI and KSUI raise $184,000 during spring fund drive
  May 8, 2003
• Images from the groundbreaking for the Schaeffer Library for the Writers' Workshop
  May 7, 2003
• Grants to assist University of Iowa gifted education efforts
  May 7, 2003
• MERF dedication, CBRB groundbreaking set for May 9
  May 6, 2003
• UI to break ground for Schaeffer Library addition to Iowa Writers' Workshop
  April 28, 2003
• UI business college receives $25 million gift commitment
  April 21, 2003
• College of Law successfully concludes fund-raising campaign, exceeds goal by more than 30 percent
  April 15, 2003
• Children honor father by establishing UI professorship in trial advocacy
  April 9, 2003
• Ohio couple gives $100,000 to spur innovative UI programming
  April 3, 2003
• Guardsmark gift to establish Hawley visitorship, lecture at UI Disability Law Center
  March 28, 2003
• W. M. Keck Foundation gift to UI College of Engineering to promote cleaner environment
  March 26, 2003
• Gift from sale of farm to fund cochlear implant research at UI
  March 10, 2003
• Gift from Palmers to enhance Hancher Auditorium endowment
  February 19, 2003
• $1 million gift to endow special exhibitions at UI Museum of Art
  February 17, 2003
• Gannett Foundation commits $250,000 to UI journalism building campaign
  January 13, 2003
• UI head football coach Kirk Ferentz makes gift to UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  December 18, 2002
• Wilson gift to boost Hancher Auditorium's endowment for educational programs
  December 13, 2002
• Images from the 2002 Carver College of Medicine Student Scholarship Awards Luncheon
  December 5, 2002
• $1 million gift helps fund building addition for UI Writers' Workshop
  November 6, 2002
• UI public radio stations WSUI/KSUI raise $213,000 in fund drive
  October 28, 2002
• Images from the Second Annual University of Iowa Scholarship Recognition Luncheon
  October 28, 2002
• UI Carver College of Medicine to honor Abboud
  October 22, 2002
• Parkin appointed Bently Professor of Engineering
  October 22, 2002
• Images from the Art and Art History Building Groundbreaking
  October 17, 2002
• UI and UI Foundation co-host first annual luncheon honoring contributors and recipients of endowed faculty positions
  October 10, 2002
• Oglesby gift to UI creates student scholarship, first endowed KSUI program fund
  October 9, 2002
• UI to break ground for new art building October 4
  October 1, 2002
• Couple gives $3 million for UI journalism building; groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 19
  September 12, 2002
• Beam gift provides $50,000 for Women in Science and Engineering
  September 6, 2002
• UI plans groundbreaking for Gerdin Athletic Learning Center
  August 26, 2002
• Lillibridge bequest leaves more than $1 million to the UI College of Education
  August 21, 2002
• Fraternal Order of Eagles supports diabetes research at the UI
  August 1, 2002
• Gift from two Iowa Law School Foundation board members establishes faculty fellowship
  July 23, 2002
• Fincham family establishes annual neurology award at Iowa
  July 18, 2002
• Des Moines couple gives $1.5 million to build UI football practice facility
  July 11, 2002
• Iowa-based foundation gives $500,000 to support UI arts programs
  June 25, 2002
• $1 million gift to benefit UI College of Engineering and the Mississippi River
  June 20, 2002
• Couple's gift enhances endowed faculty position for UI College of Pharmacy
  June 17, 2002
• UI kicks off public phase of $850 million comprehensive campaign
  June 8, 2002
• Couple gives $5 million to aid UI student-athletes and Hawkeye athletics
  May 31, 2002
• UI launches landmark campaign; public invited to celebration
  May 15, 2002
• UI to dedicate Carver Research Facility May 3
  May 1, 2002
• UI public radio stations raise $165,000 in fund drive
  April 30, 2002
• Wolfe Clinic Foundation gift endows ophthalmology lecture series
  April 20, 2002
• New journalism building planned for UI
  April 10, 2002
• Parents Association funds seven campus projects
  April 9, 2002
• Texas parents' gift to boost UI research on rare bone cancer
  April 1, 2002
• $1-million gift from B. W. Carpenter to support several UI programs
  March 19, 2002
• Record UI athletics scholarship gift to benefit Iowa high school football players
  March 12, 2002
• Family gives valuable Marvin Cone painting to Museum of Art
  March 11, 2002
• UI asks Regents to name College of Medicine in recognition of Carver Trust support
  March 6, 2002
• Caterpillar Foundation gives College of Engineering $150,000
  March 5, 2002
• UI and University of Hawaii researchers receive $2 million from the W. M. Keck Foundation
  February 22, 2002
• Leader in radiology and UI graduate endows medical scholarship
  February 4, 2002
• Muscatine couple establishes scholarship for Iowa women's basketball
  February 1, 2002
• Kelches establish new UI medical student scholarship
  January 29, 2002
• Seidler scholarship aids aspiring teachers in last college semester
  January 24, 2002
• Hearst Foundation gift to bring visiting professionals to UI journalism school
  January 22, 2002
• UI College of Law graduates give $500,000 to support environmental professorship
  January 17, 2002
• NBC anchor Tom Brokaw creates UI scholarship for American Indian students
  January 14, 2002

Complete listings of UIF press releases are also available online for the following years:

• 2005 News Releases
• 2004 News Releases
• 2003 News Releases
• 2002 News Releases
• 2001 News Releases
• 2000 News Releases
• 1999 News Releases (partial listing)

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