Gift Content

Alumna Deb Neff Gives $8M to Biological Sciences

Dave Jones — May 09, 2023 - 2:00pm

Life sciences industry expert Deborah Neff ’76 is giving $8 million to the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis College of Biological Sciences for two endowments, one for the deanship and the other for the Center for Neuroscience for research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The gift is the largest by an individual in the college’s history.

Gorman Museum Move Set for 2021

Karen Michele Nikos — January 24, 2020 - 3:54pm

The 51�ԹϺ�� Davis C.N. Gorman Museum will move to the former Nelson Gallery site in 2021.

Wine Writer Jancis Robinson Donates Personal Papers to 51�ԹϺ�� Davis

Julia Ann Easley — January 03, 2017 - 10:16am

Robinson to Speak at Feb. 16 Event Celebrating Gift

Robinson will discuss the evolution of the wine world over her 40-year career at a free event hosted by the library on Feb. 16.

Wayne Thiebaud Donates Major Works of Art to New 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Museum

Karen Michele Nikos — June 27, 2016 - 5:04pm

Wayne Thiebaud — the legendary painter known for his colorful paintings of landscapes, portraits and good-enough-to-eat desserts — this week presented to the University of California, Davis, some of his treasured paintings.

The works delivered today (June 27), each a major example within his painting oeuvre, are:

Retired Faculty-Staff Couple Gives $1 Million to Create Professorship

Julia Ann Easley — June 16, 2016 - 11:24am

51�ԹϺ�� Davis today announced receiving a $1 million bequest from Distinguished Professor Emeritus Maury Hull and Karen Slakey Hull to endow a professorship in biomedical engineering with a research emphasis in orthopedics. The Maury L. Hull and Karen S. Hull Endowed Professorship will continue the couple’s already substantial legacy at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis.

Dean Jennifer Sinclair Curtis of 51�ԹϺ�� Davis’ College of Engineering expressed thanks to the Hulls, who at their retirement in 2014 had a combined career of nearly 65 years at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis.