1999-2005 NEWS ARCHIVES

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• 2005 News Headlines
  
  
• 2004 News Headlines
  
  
• 2003 News Headlines
  
  
• 2002 News Headlines
  
  
• 2001 News Headlines
  
  
• 2000 News Headlines
  
  
• 1999 News Headlines

2006 News

• U-M remembers President Gerald R. Ford
  
  
• U-M mourns death of Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler
  
  
• Flight Institute established with $4 million gift from The François-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation
  
  
• Eisenbergs give $5 million to U-M Institute of Historical Studies
  
  
• U-M Regent David Brandon gives $4 million to The Michigan Difference
  
  
• Joan and Sanford Weill endow Ford School deanship
  
  
• U-M Museum of Art reaches fund-raising goal
  
  
• Professor makes personal gift to advance environmental justice
  
  
• Arnold and Constance Pohs give $1 million for Communication Studies; Athletics receives $250,000
  
  
• U-M Medical School receives $2 million grant from Atkins Foundation for named professorship
  
  
• U-M Museum of Art receives $1 million for Chinese gallery in new addition
  
  
• Latest Stamps gift builds scholarships and North Campus auditorium
  
  
• Braylon Edwards donates $500,000 to Athletics
  
  
• Newspaper publisher/civic leader Philip Power aids U-M publications
  
  
• Campaign raises more than $2 billion, 81% of goal
  
  
• U-M museum of art receives more than $6.5 million in new leadership gifts
  
  
• U-M-Flint Chancellor Juan E. Mestas boosts U-M-Flint scholarships with campaign gift

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2005 News

• U-M sole North American recipient of Alcoa Foundation grant
  
  
• $1 million gift from Peter and Barbara Benedek to fund enhanced student opportunities at U-M
  
  
• Towsley Foundation gives $1.5 million to School of Music
  
  
• New academic center on Athletic Campus named for alumnus Stephen Ross
  
  
• Student Publications Building named for Stanford Lipsey
  
  
• Publisher Lipsey gives $3 million to U-M to aid student journalists
  
  
• The Michigan Difference total reaches $1.83 billion
  
  
• Leonard Miller gives $1M for U-M Kellogg Eye Center expansion
  
  
• U-M one of 43 institutions to receive groundbreaking research funding from Gates Foundation
  
  
• UMMA receives $1.5 million challenge grant, $1 million gift
  
  
• Jones' $10M gift will benefit U-M business undergrads
  
  
• University of Michigan writers get $5 million advance
  
  
• Erb family gives U-M $10 million to develop ecologically and socially responsible business
  
  
• $25-million grant to U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital carries on founding donor's legacy
  
  
• Frankel family gives $20 million to Judaic Studies at U-M
  
  
• NSF International provides $250,000 annual scholarship fund to the U-M School of Public Health
  

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2004 News

• Bill and Dee Brehm give U-M $44 million to accelerate search for Type I diabetes cure
  
  
• Charles Walgreen gives $2 million to establish professorship in pharmacy
  
  
• Rich Rogel receives first David B. Hermelin Award
  
  
• Stephen M. Ross makes record $100 million gift to U-M Business School
  
  
• Jalen Rose endows scholarship for Michigan students
  
  
• U-M head football coach, Regent team to co-chair campaign for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
  
  
• U-M alumnus fulfills dream with $1 million gift
  
  
• Annenberg Foundation gives $2 million toward new building for Ford School of Public Policy
  
  
• Stamps gift enhances experience for art and design students
  
  
• Museum of Art receives three leadership gifts totaling $2.5 million for building expansion and renovation project
  
  
• The Michigan Difference campaign launched with $2.5 billion goal
  
  
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation gives $5 million to School of Public Health
  
  
• U-M Museum of Art receives $10 million from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation
  
  
• Heinz C. Prechter Fund for Manic Depression to become donor-advised fund within the U-M Health System
  
  
• Mary and Edwin Meader give $18 million to Depression Center and Kelsey Museum:
  • U-M Depression Center receives $10 million gift
  • $8 million gift to fund new wing at Kelsey Museum
    
    
• Joan and Sanford Weill give $5 million for U-M's Ford School of Public Policy building
  

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2003 News

University of Michigan regent Olivia Maynard

U-M regent makes $2.25 million gift to School of Social Work

Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman set example for fund-raising campaign with $500,000 gift to U-M

UMMA announces two major gifts toward its expansion and renovation project

College of Pharmacy receives donation to medicinal chemistry

Brubaker family tradition combines love of education, spirit of giving

Betting on the right people: Bob and Ellen Thompson

Drs. Arnold Babcock and Titus Van Haitsma use gift annuities for dental scholarships

U-M Museum of Art receives major gift of wood art from nationally recognized collector

Abt Associates funds Institute for Social Research Survey Methods Program fellowship

3M donates self-checkout equipment to U-M libraries

Keck Foundation grant supports ambitious U-M inner space project

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University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman

2002 News

Jerry May named vice president of development

Two gifts advance Michigan Engineering

Ann Lurie gives $25 million to Michigan Engineering

Eli Lilly Foundation gives $750K to U-M Depression Center

Regents elect Coleman president of the U-M

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2001 News

How Does the Change in Executive Leadership Affect Plans for the University of Michigan's Fundraising Campaign?

Lilly Foundation Funds Innovative Programs at the University of Michigan's College of Pharmacy, Engineering and Business School

West Coast Investment Banker, Sanford R. Robertson, Joins University Campaign Volunteer Leadership

Michigan Online Giving Goes Live!

Popular Charitable Gift Annuities Now Offered at Michigan

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2000 News

U-M is Only Second Public University to Receive Prestigious Aaa Bond Rating from Moody's

Gift of $2.5 Million from Dow Chemical Company Foundation Will Fund Sustainability Education Programs

Record Year for Donor Generosity

John V. Moran Selected as W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research

Fellowship Honors Former TIME Editor Karsten Prager (AB '58, AM '60)

Kevin (BSE EE '83) and Nancy O'Connor endow computer science professorship in Engineering

Michigan TELEFUND hits record high $4.36 Million in Pledges!

Arthur Miller Theatre to Anchor the New Walgreen Drama Center

Richard (BBA '70) and Susan Rogel's gift the largest ever made to the University of Michigan for financial aid

Landmark Resource for Philanthrophic Research comes to the U-M Office of Development

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1999 News

$5 Million Gift From Family of Humanitarian Edward Ginsberg Supports Center for Community Service and Learning

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