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May 19, 2025

Celebrating Honorary Degree Recipients

May 16, 2025

$5M Skoll Foundation gift will help protect communities from future pandemics

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May 5, 2025

Daniel Cracchiolo Institute opens at Steele Children’s Research Center

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May 2, 2025

$2M gift establishes endowed chair to support consciousness studies

$10 Million Steele Foundation Gift Includes First Private Support for UArizona Health Sciences Center

Nov. 2, 2022

TUCSON, Ariz. — A new $10 million gift from the Steele Foundation includes the first private philanthropic support for the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies, or CAMI. This news follows Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s designation of $150 million in funding for the center, announced earlier today.

$2.5M gift from Boyce family establishes Mining and Geological Engineering Endowed Chair

Sept. 15, 2022

Greg Boyce was accepted to two universities after he finished high school. But a springtime visit to Tucson made it an easy choice: He was going to study engineering at the University of Arizona.

UArizona remembers prolific university supporter Helen S. Schaefer

Sept. 8, 2022

Helen S. Schaefer, center, at the May 5, 2005, groundbreaking ceremony for the Helen S. Schaefer Building, which houses the university's Poetry Center. Others in the photo include, from left: Gail Browne, then the executive director of the Poetry Center; university President Emeritus John P. Schaefer; then-President Peter Likins; and Charles Tatum, then the dean of the College of Humanities.

Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute supports UArizona graduate students and faculty with $2.5M

Aug. 1, 2022

A $2.5 million charitable grant to the University of Arizona from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will advance scholarship in Persian and Iranian studies and support an endowed professorship and graduate student fellowships.

$4.8M gift to Arizona Athletics to strengthen student-athlete experience

June 6, 2022

Arizona Football letter winner and longtime University of Arizona supporter Douglas Allred has given gifts totaling $4.8 million to Arizona Athletics. The funds will support program enhancements for the football and men's basketball programs as well as the Lute Olson Endowment for Excellence in Men's Basketball.

Arizona to Build Clements Golf Center at Tucson Country Club

June 1, 2022

The University of Arizona, Arizona Athletics and Tucson Country Club have reached an agreement to construct a new facility to be the official home of Arizona Men's and Women's Golf programs. The William M. "Bill" Clements Golf Center will be named in honor of philanthropist and community icon Bill Clements who passed away in 1995.

Flinn Foundation commits $5.52M to College of Medicine – Phoenix

April 22, 2022

The Flinn Foundation has committed $5.5 million over five years to strengthen the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix's investment in translational research in cardiovascular diseases, neurosciences and mental health. The gift also will support pipeline training and education, as well as innovative research and development.

University leaders cut the ribbon for the Student Success District at a grand opening ceremony on April 13, 2022.

At the heart of the UArizona campus, a new district is dedicated to student success

April 14, 2022

The student experience at the University of Arizona involves many areas of student life: academics, social activities, health and well-being, and more. Students now have a single place to go, at the heart of campus, to find services and support in all these areas. University leaders celebrated the grand opening of the Student Success District, a nine-acre span of four buildings that house resources students need to thrive, including library services, learning support, tutoring, advising, mentoring, career services and health programs.

Construction will begin in May on a new home for the university's Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. A ceremonial groundbreaking was held March 16, 2022.

Construction scheduled to begin on new home for Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine

March 16, 2022

The University of Arizona and UArizona Health Sciences announced Wednesday the completion of a $23 million fundraising effort to build a new home for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, part of the College of Medicine – Tucson. The 30,000-square-foot facility will be located on the UArizona Health Sciences campus at 1231 N. Cherry Ave. Construction is expected to begin mid-May and be completed in fall 2023.

UArizona Wyant College of Optical Sciences raises $28M for endowed chairs

Jan. 28, 2022

The University of Arizona James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences has completed one of the most ambitious fundraising endowed chair campaigns for a single college in the university's history. Thomas L. Koch, dean of the Wyant College, announced that the college has received $28 million in donations and commitments to establish 14 new endowed chairs. Each endowment has been or will be established with initial gifts totaling $2 million.

Health Diagnostics Leader Quidel Corporation Makes $2M Investment in UArizona

Jan. 5, 2022

Quidel Corporation, a leading provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, cellular-based virology assays and molecular diagnostic systems, has committed to give $1 million for scholarships that support tomorrow’s scientists and health professionals at UArizona and to make an additional $1 million investment in sponsored research projects. Of the scholarship gift, half will benefit the BIO5 Institute's KEYS Research Internship program. The remainder will establish the Quidel Global Health Scholarships.

UArizona Alumnus Established $2.3M Endowment for the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy

Dec. 20, 2021

Community pharmacist and University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy alumnus John A. "Andy" Ware made an estate gift commitment establishing the John A. and Frances P. Ware Endowment prior to his death in March. The $2.3 million endowment will provide for the college's most pressing needs in the coming years. Ware's career in pharmacy spanned three decades.