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The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History
LIST OF ENDOWMENTS
The School of Arts and Humanities would not be able to change lives and the community without endowments that build our future.
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ENDOWMENTS TO THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Alice and Joseph E. Brooks
Lord & Taylor Endowment for the Arts Jonelle and Bryce Jordan
Scholarship in the Arts Robert Plant Armstrong
Endowed Scholarship Fund Katherine R. Cecil Professorship in Foreign Languages Ignacy and Celina Rockover
Professorship Anne Stark Watson and
Chester Watson History
Professorship Endowment Chair of Art and Aesthetic
Studies Endowment Margaret M. McDermott
Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies Arts and Humanities Chair Robert Bone Memorial Creative
Writing Endowment Robert S. Nelsen Scholarship in Creative Writing Russell Cleveland Endowed
Professorship for
Guitar Studies Opportunity Fund in Honor of
Dean Kratz, Dr. Brettell and Dr. Linehan Betty R. (Bitsy) Carter Opportunity
Fund for the School of Arts and Humanities Stefanie Schneidler and
Jeffrey Robinson Opportunity
Fund for the School of Arts and Humanities Frank R. Rossiter Book Award Gavin R. G. Hambly Scholarship Sabine Madriguera
Student Support Fund The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History Richard R. Brettell
Distinguished University Chair Edith O’Donnell
Distinguished Chairs #1–4 Edith O’Donnell
Graduate Fellowship Jelcy and Conrad Romberg
Opportunity Fund Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History Fund (TRIP) Ragen S. & Roy D. Elterman
Endowed Scholarship Richard Brettell Award in the Arts Arts and Humanities
Scholar in Residence Program Wolfgang Rindler Memorial Fund Edna W. McClintock
Memorial Harp Fund Marvin and Kathleen Stone
Distinguished Professorship of Humanities in
Medicine and Science Trish and Richard Kurjan Fund for the Center for
Translation Studies Dennis M. Kratz Research Fund Marvin and Kathleen Stone
Scholarship/Fellowship Nina and Thomas Lambert
Scholarship/Fellowship for the School of Arts and Humanities Guitar Opportunity Fund Jerry and Marilyn Comer
Director’s Fund for the Comer Collection Jerry and Marilyn Comer
Lecture Fund for the Comer Collection Jerry and Marilyn Comer
Research Assistant Fund for the Comer Collection
ENDOWMENTS TO THE ACKERMAN CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Arnold A. Jaffe Holocaust
Collection Endowment Fund The Einspruch Lectures on the Holocaust Leah and Paul Lewis
Chair of Holocaust
Studies Endowment Ackerman Center for
Holocaust Studies Selwin Belofsky Graduate
Fellowship in Holocaust
Studies Endowment Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished
Chair of Holocaust Studies Stan and Barbara Rabin
Distinguished Professorship in Holocaust Studies Mala and Adolph Einspruch
Fellowship for Holocaust Studies Schuman-Ellman Opportunity
Fund for the Ackerman Center Mike Jacobs Fellowship in Holocaust Studies Istvan and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Research Fund Herman Abrams Research Fund Zsuzsanna Ozsváth
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Ackerman Center for Holocaust
Studies Conference and Lecture Fund Jacqueline and Michael Wald
Professorship in
Holocaust Studies Charles M. Schwarz Endowment in Holocaust Studies Richard Gundy & Steven Gundy
Family Endowment in Holocaust Studies RFTF2: Researching for the Future Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis
Barnett Annual Scholars’
Conference Endowment Max and Florence Wolens
Research Fund in honor of
Istvan and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Selwin Belofsky Graduate
Fellowship in Holocaust Studies Jaffe Family Endowment for Holocaust Studies Miriam Lewis Barnett Chair
A&H is grateful to members of THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES LEGACY SOCIETY
Richard J. Kurjan Nina and Thomas Lambert Michael May Jody H. and Robert S. Nelson
Katherine W. Power Kathy and Marvin Stone Barb and Robert P. Sypult Karen Wolfe
PLANNED GIFTS provide donors with the satisfaction of knowing their support will make a difference even after they are gone. These gifts also give UT Dallas the opportunity to plan for future growth, knowing these philanthropic commitments will be realized in the years to come. To learn more, go to: development.utdallas.edu/support/giving-societies/the-legacy-society/
Together, we strengthen our academic community by providing excellent, innovative education and research that will enrich the lives of our students and community. There are many opportunities to make a lasting difference for the University and the students it serves. Those opportunities include gifts through donor-advised funds, IRA charitable rollovers, real estate, life insurance and stock.
PROJECTS AND CAMPAIGNS
$750 MILLION NEW DIMENSIONS CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES NEW ERA FOR UT DALLAS
The University of Texas at Dallas launched the public phase of New Dimensions: The Campaign for UT Dallas on May 25, 2021. The effort aims to raise $750 million for transformative priorities across campus to help meet the needs of students, expand the impact of research and create a new destination for cultural appreciation in North Dallas.
“This is a campaign primarily about people,” said Dr. Richard C. Benson, UT Dallas president and the Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership, during the campaign’s virtual launch. “It’s about students whose lives will be changed by the opportunity a scholarship provides. It’s about the inventors who make their dreams a reality on our campus and then go out and change the world. It’s about patients who receive unparalleled care from our clinicians backed by cutting-edge research and technology.”
For the University’s first 50 years, fundraising efforts focused on realizing the founders’ vision for an institution that could support the growth of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex through research and technical training. Having emerged in recent years as a Tier One research institution and destination for bestvalue academic programs, the New Dimensions campaign seeks to redefine UT Dallas’ impact on students, faculty and the prosperity of the North Texas region.
Above: UT Dallas President Dr. Richard C. Benson, Eugene McDermott Distinguished University Chair of Leadership Below, left to right: John Olajide BS’04, Ron Nash MS’79 To do this, the campaign will center around three main priorities: Attracting the best and brightest students, enhancing lives through research, and transforming the arts on campus.
Joining the New Dimensions campaign as co-chairs are John Olajide BS’04, CEO of Axxess, and Ron Nash MS’79, managing director of the Nash Technology Group, a veteran business executive in the technology industry and former senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Defense.
“People in Dallas know that UT Dallas delivers the educated graduates, innovative technology and entrepreneurial ideas that power the future of North Texas,” Olajide. “We bring in talented students from around the world. Once they get here and live in the vibrant community this campaign will help shape, they’ll stay and power Dallas’ growth.”
Olajide and Nash agree that continuing North Texas’ economic, social and cultural development will depend in large part upon expanding UT Dallas’ impact in the region.
“UT Dallas is a world class University, an incredible economic engine and a place that improves lives,” Nash said. “For Dallas to maintain its standing as one of the best places to live, work and do business, we need UT Dallas to accelerate its growth and development”
In order to recruit top students and ensure comprehensive affordability across all its schools, UT Dallas looks to significantly bolster endowments for scholarships and fellowships. These resources expand educational opportunities for students of all backgrounds, enable social mobility and allow the University to compete for students whose talents will serve the region long after graduation.
Campaign efforts will also focus on enhancing the University’s research capacity while expand intellectual collaboration between UT Dallas and local institutions. Establishing endowed professorships to attract and retain leading researchers and funding promising avenues of research are among the campaign’s most important goals.
Significant advances have already been made on this priority with the recent groundbreaking for the Texas Instruments Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Building, a joint effort with UT Southwestern Medical Center that will revolutionize biomedical research and development in Dallas.
“In a University, the point is not just to have ideas from the sciences and engineering, but to integrate them with the social sciences, arts and humanities to look at new ways we can change the shape of our future,” said Dr. Shalini Prasad, professor and head of bioengineering and the Cecil H. and Ida Green Professor in Systems Biology Science in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. More on New Dimensions on the next page 47
The New Dimensions campaign will also look to add new depth to UT Dallas’ cultural impact beyond its traditional strengths in STEM disciplines and management education. Over the last decade, the University has expanded its breadth of expertise to include unique approaches to artistic study and creation. With the founding of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History in 2014 and the creation of the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication in 2016, UT Dallas created a dynamic campus environment that combines traditional approaches to the arts with new technology and data science.
UT Dallas now envisions the construction of the first major art museum north of Interstate 635: the UT Dallas Athenaeum. Housing a performance hall and gallery space for internationally renowned art collections — like the Crow Collection of Asian Art obtained by the University in 2018 — the Athenaeum will create a new arts district unlike anything currently available in North Texas. The complex will invite families, schoolchildren and scholars to campus, inspiring imaginations and encouraging cross-cultural dialogue. “The Athenaeum will be a cultural destination point, bringing visitors here for experiences that can’t be found anywhere else in Dallas, while attracting renowned scholars and multitalented students to our city from around the world,” said UT System Regent Christina Melton Crain.
The New Dimensions campaign has raised nearly $300 million since the beginning of the campaign’s quiet phase in late 2017.
“UT Dallas is committed to serving our communities, and this campaign will define what that impact looks like for the next 50 years and beyond,” said Kyle Edgington PhD’13, vice president for development and alumni relations. “I invite all of our alumni, corporate partners, neighbors and friends to join us in shaping this new era.”
To view the New Dimensions campaign launch, visit newdimensions.utdallas.edu/event.
The University of Texas at Dallas broke ground this May on the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, a new cultural district located on approximately 12 acres at the southeastern edge of the campus, creating a new gateway to the University as well as a destination for students, faculty, staff and the community that will foster engagement in the arts and learning.
Designed by global architecture and design firm Morphosis, the project includes three new buildings— the second location for the Crow Museum of Asian Art, a performance hall and a planned museum for the traditional arts of the Americas—in addition to a parking structure, all surrounding a central plaza that serves as the heart of the master plan. The Athenaeum is supported by a $32 million gift from the O’Donnell Foundation, the single largest monetary gift from one of UT Dallas’ most significant donors. In addition to the Crow Collection, the University has also received gifts of three collections of Latin American folk art: the Roger Horchow Collection, the Laura and Dan Boeckman Collection of Latin American Folk Art, and the Bryan J. Stevens Collection of Masks of the Sierra de Puebla.
Phase I of the O’Donnell Athenaeum, the campus location of the Crow Museum of Asian Art, is anticipated to be completed in spring 2024. “As an expression of human intellect and creativity, the arts play an important role at UT Dallas by enhancing the University’s focus on science, technology, engineering, mathematics and management. But to ensure that UT Dallas develops versatile individuals, we must integrate the arts fully into our vision and the experience of our students,” said UT Dallas President Richard C. Benson.
“Thanks to the transformative gift from the O’Donnell Foundation, as well as lead gifts from the Crow family and other generous Dallas families, we can now realize this vision for the Athenaeum, creating vibrant spaces commensurate with our aspirations for UT Dallas and becoming a hub for the arts in North Texas.”
The School of Arts and Humanities proudly supports the educational journeys of our students through various scholarships and fellowships. Many of these awards are generously provided through donations and endowments due to generosity of alumni, staff, faculty and the arts and humanities community.
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS Ragen S. and Roy D. Elterman Endowed Scholarship Gavin R. G. Hambly Endowed Scholarship Gavin R. G. Hambly Philosophy and History Scholarship Current Use Fund The Barb and Bob Sypult Scholarship in Music
GRADUATE AWARDS The Robert Plant Armstrong Endowed Scholarship Fund The Selwin Belofsky Fellowship in Holocaust Studies Mabel H. Bremer Travel Award Mala and Adolph Einspruch Fellowship for Holocaust Studies The Mike Jacobs Fellowship in Holocaust Studies Betty and Gifford Johnson Travel Award Edith O’Donnell Graduate Fellowship Dr. Roger N. and Adrienne T. Rosenberg Graduate Fellowship UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE AWARDS Robert Bone Memorial Creative Writing Endowment Jonelle and Bryce Jordan Scholarship in the Arts Dennis M. Kratz Research Fund Nina and Thomas Lambert Scholarship/Fellowship Robert S. Nelsen Scholarship in Creative Writing Frank R. Rossiter Book Award Marvin and Kathleen Stone Scholarship/Fellowship Victor L. Worsfold Grant Program
OTHER AWARDS AND FUNDING The Richard Brettell Award in the Arts Teaching Assistantships
