Donor Spotlight

Significant Planned Gift for Student Travel Honors Revered Professor, Arts Leader

Rob Kendall and Tony Holmes made UT Dallas’ largest planned gift of cash to date in honor of Dr. Richard Brettell to give students transformative travel experiences. Read more »

Gift of Photography Captures Spaces for All Time

Photographer Carolyn Brown has left the entirety of her archive to the Edith O’Donnell Institute for Art History, including thousands of images documenting important cultural spaces in the Middle Ea Read more

Friendship Inspires Planned Gift to Revolutionize Brain Health

A $1.1 million planned gift from the estate of Janet DeSanders will empower life-changing research and treatment at the Center for BrainHealth. Read more

Endowed Scholarship Helps Grow Jindal Young Scholars Program

Alumni couple creates a scholarship to support outstanding Dallas ISD students enrolling at the Jindal School. Read more

Gift from The Beck Group Supports Real Estate Students at UT Dallas

A $100,000 gift from The Beck Group will establish an endowed scholarship for students in the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s real estate program. Read more

Mbroh Engineering Creates First Endowed Scholarship for Diversity Scholars

A $50,000 gift to UT Dallas will create the first endowed scholarship for students in the Diversity Scholars Program and provide support for the University’s chapter of the National Society of Black Read more

$3 Million Gift Establishes Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate at UT Dallas Jindal School

North Texas real estate icon Herb Weitzman and his wife, Donna, say mentorships, an entrepreneurial mindset and a customer-centric focus are the keys to building a successful real estate career. Read more

University Champion Leaves Enduring Legacy

Mrs. McDermott, whose philanthropic gifts made historic impacts on the educational and arts institutions of her native city of Dallas, died on May 3, 2018, at the age of 106. Read more

Mark Cuban Invests in Computer Science Outreach for Local Children

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently made a significant gift to The University of Texas at Dallas to support a series of coding camps for Dallas-area students. Read more

Young Alumni Couple Invests in Future Comets

Dr. Stacey Boland BS'00 and Dr. Justin Boland BS'00 originally met as undergraduates at UT Dallas. In addition to their annual gifts, the couple decided it was time to include the University in their Read more

Longtime Supporter’s Planned Gift Furthers Student Impact

Decades of service at the Naveen Jindal School of Management led Skip Moore to give more than just his time. A managing partner for Deloitte and longtime Jindal School advocate, Moore decided to make Read more