Gift Announcements

On September 6, members of The Lynn Sage Foundation gathered on the Feinberg campus to celebrate another year of high-impact support for cancer research at the Lurie Cancer Center.

Ryan Fellowship benefactors Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan, and 75 current and former Fellows, honored during halftime ceremony at September 8 Northwestern football game

Nearly 130 members of the Henry and Emma Rogers Society attended the group’s sixth annual luncheon on May 17, 2018, in Scott Hall’s Guild Lounge on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.

Walter Athletics Center brings student-athletes to the heart of campus

Their gift pushed fundraising for We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern past the $4 billion mark and well beyond its original goal of $3.75 billion.

Northwestern increases fundraising goal to $5 billion.

Mellon Foundation awards will help stabilize community-based artists after devastating hurricanes

Funding Launches New Center Dedicated to Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Treat Cardiovascular Disease

New scholarship helps students in need access the best journalism training

Grant includes permanent endowment to support the position of a co-director for the Center for the Scientific Studies in the Arts

Funded by NSF and the Simons Foundation, the center will apply mathematics to understand developmental biology

University honors benefactors Ryan, Wilson and Slotnick families at building dedication

Student singers crowdfund to stage their original new opera

Five students selected for inaugural Little Joe Ventures Fellowship Program in Entrepreneurship

$10 million gift creates Simpson Querrey Center for Epigenetics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

The awards provide funding for field work outside the US related to graduate dissertations on important contemporary political, economic, and social issues.

Ann Suker Potter ’82 and Stephen N. Potter ’82 MBA have been supporting areas across Northwestern since the mid-1980s, when they made their first gift of $150 to support scholarships. In January 2017, the couple documented a $1 million bequest to benefit the Jacob R. Suker, MD, Professorship in Medical Education at Feinberg.

The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation, a longtime supporter of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer research at the Lurie Cancer Center, recently announced a commitment of $1.5 million to renew its support of Northwestern and to establish the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation GI Cancer OncoSET Program at the Lurie Cancer Center.

Northwestern alumnus John R. Flanagan ’58 MBA recently made an extraordinary gift as a part of We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern Medicine to establish the Neil J. Stone, MD, Professorship at Feinberg.

Interdisciplinary research center aims to advance human health and well-being through bioengineering and nanoscience research

$1.5 million gift will support dynamic community and education programs

Combined M.F.A.-M.A. program at Northwestern among first of its kind nationally

To the family of late Chicago businessman Harvey Kapnick, business is more than a singular career path. Business and its institutions are a central and dynamic part of our world, inextricably linked to culture, politics, philosophies, literature and society. 

Heralded by trumpets and featuring a performance by music students, Northwestern University dedicated the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts yesterday (Sept. 24).

Students in Northwestern’s German Department will have more opportunities to research and study abroad, thanks to a $250,000 gift from the Friedman-Kline Family Foundation.

Jill G. Meister (JD '90) and Paul A. Meister (JD '87) have donated $500,000 to Northwestern Law.

Largest law school gift ever will support scholarships, public interest initiatives, entrepreneurship

At the announcement of the naming of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

New Gift Creates Matching Gift Challenge to Support Faculty

Atrium within Ryan Fieldhouse to be named Mitchell and Valerie Slotnick Family Atrium

In recognition of the unprecedented generosity of Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan and their longtime support of the arts both at Northwestern and in the greater Chicago area, Northwestern University will name the recently opened music and communication building the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.

New office in San Francisco to serve one of the University’s most dynamic alumni communities

Approximately 200 people gathered June 16 as Northwestern University officially opened the doors of The Garage, an incubator of ideas that will bring together students from every area of the University to explore innovation and entrepreneurship.

Alan Sahakian will be the new John A. Dever Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The Writing Program of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences will be renamed the Bobbie and Stanton Cook Family Writing Program after the Cook family made a significant gift to the program that touches every part of Northwestern University.

Gift will support Feinberg School of Medicine and School of Education and Social Policy

Alumnus bequeaths $10 million for professorship, makes additional $500,000 gift

Interdisciplinary research center to be named in honor of Ronald and JoAnne Willens

Sets new campaign record of $117.8 million in total giving from single benefactor.

The largest single donation in Northwestern’s history will transform global programming at the University, create the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, support scholarships for international students and fund fellowships, travel, interdisciplinary professorships and research at home and abroad.

Gift to create Institute for Global Studies, support scholarships for international students

As the end of the year approaches, please keep in mind a few deadlines to ensure gifts to Northwestern are processed and applied to the 2015 tax year. Thank you for all that you do to support Northwestern.

The opportunity to make tax-advantaged distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts (“IRAs”) is available again, but only for a limited time. The legislation will expire on December 31, 2014.

Northwestern University will receive nearly $400,000 to develop a STEM program for promising Chicago Public Schools students. 

University's new visitors center will be named in their honor

State-of-the-art performance space will be named the Shirley Welsh Ryan Opera Theater.

Substantial commitment also to fund scholarships, film digitization and athletics

Gift from The Bernard Osher Foundation will fund the center.

The generous support made toward We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern is opening new doors for students at the University’s School of Education and Social Policy.

Center will advance research and patient care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Earl and Lovie Beard Scholarship Fund will be established.

Award will fund research on restoring function to obstructed bladders in children.

Proteomics expert works on mapping human cell lineages to define wellness, disease.

Northwestern, Art Institute, and UChicago will collaborate on art history program.

An $8.6 million dollar gift from alumna Marie A. Quinlan’s estate to preservation department

The gift will provide critical support to the Economics Department in Northwestern’s Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The University will honor their gift by naming the Lakeside Student Faculty Collaboration Space, within a new facility on the Evanston campus, after the Gullquists. The facility will house the Economics Department and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

Renée and Lester Crown are giving Northwestern University a generous gift to expand undergraduate teaching on modern Israel and support activities related to the understanding of the culture, politics, and society of a small country that plays a significant role in the world.

A $10 million gift from the Querrey Simpson Charitable Foundation will establish a center that will enhance Northwestern University’s global leadership position in regenerative nanomedicine.  

On New Year’s Eve at the TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl Pep Rally, Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro will formally announce an unprecedented series of gifts — more than $55 million — in support of a campaign for athletics and recreation.

Richard and Jackie Hollander donate vintage photographs to Block, Whitney, and LACMA.

The Rajawali Foundation has given Northwestern University a renewable $2 million gift to create a new Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program (EDGS), enhancing the University’s role in research on developing countries.

Scholarships will benefit local students, strengthen partnership with CPS.

The $16 million gift supports leadership in athletics and social entrepreneurship at Kellogg.