Major Gifts Making Major Impact

Multiple Million Dollar Donations
Advance UH’s Mission

University of Houston received this year multiple gifts of a million dollars or more to advance the University’s mission. From scholarships to health care, equity to engineering, UH donors gave big across the campus.

The Thomas Michael Panos Family Estate gave a $4.5 million gift to establish a $2 million endowed chair in the Cullen College of Engineering, a $2 million endowed scholarship and $500,000 to support an endowed lecture series on equity and social justice in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Thanks to a $1 million gift from The Cullen Trust for Health Care, the College of Medicine will open a low-cost primary care clinic on the campus of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital in the fall.

MaryRoss Taylor, a longtime UH supporter and pioneer for feminist causes, gifted the University $1 million to establish an endowed professorship in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality as well as fund future IRWGS projects.

Alumnus Larry Snider (’55) and his wife Gerri gifted a $1 million gift to the Cullen College of Engineering to establish an endowed chair in industrial engineering – the first fully funded endowed chair in the department’s history. Texas Center for Learning Disabilities, a UH research center, received a $1 million anonymous gift to address pandemic-related learning loss and vaccine hesitancy.