Gives Day Celebrates Second Highest Year for Donor Participation

For the ninth straight year, TCU Gives Day was a resounding success, celebrating the second highest year in donor participation. On Oct. 25-26, TCU blew past this year’s goal of 2,000 participants — with 3,422 donors — and raised more than $1,520,603 overall for Lead On: A Campaign for TCU, the university’s most ambitious philanthropic effort in its 150-year history.

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TCU Names Medical School to Honor the Late Anne Burnett Marion

Texas Christian University announced that the School of Medicine will be named the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine in honor of the late Anne Burnett Marion’s lifetime of friendship and support and her extraordinary generosity to the TCU School of Medicine. The estate of the late Anne Burnett Marion and The Burnett Foundation, a charitable foundation based in Fort Worth, have made a second $25 million gift to The Anne W. Marion Endowment in support of the TCU School of Medicine operations in perpetuity.

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TCU Medical Students Receive Transformative Gift of Tuition

A generous anonymous family is covering the tuition bill for the upcoming school year for all 60 students in the TCU School of Medicine Class of 2024. "This gift is meaningful beyond words," said the school's founding dean, Dr. Stuart D. Flynn. "For the students in this class, it is truly powerful and will have a profound effect on their future."

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ELF Scholarship Supports Talented Student Writers

An award rooted in excellence, The Sandra Brown Excellence in Literary Fiction Scholarship (ELF) was established in 2008 to provide a full tuition scholarship to a talented TCU student writer who demonstrates both academic achievement and significant potential as a fiction writer. The scholarship was created in honor of TCU alumna and best-selling novelist Sandra Brown.

TCU’s 2022 ELF Scholarship recipient, Lily Margaret Greenway, is a rising junior who is an English and religion double major, as well as a member of the John V. Roach Honors College. From Little Rock, Arkansas, Greenway is focused on becoming a professional author and hopes to be published before she graduates from the university.

The ELF Scholarship is one of TCU’s most prestigious academic awards, and this past year a large number of applicant portfolios was submitted, making judging quite difficult, said Dan Williams, who helps with the applications process. Ultimately, both the internal and external judges gave Greenway the top ranking. Williams, who is also the TCU Honors Professor of Humanities and director of the TCU Press, said, “A talented and dedicated writer, Lily Margaret is exactly the kind of student Sandra and Michael Brown had in mind when they endowed the scholarship.”

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Newly named Ralph Lowe Energy Institute honors late industry leader, family’s support of TCU

The TCU Energy Institute is changing its name to the Ralph Lowe Energy Institute at the TCU Neeley School of Business in honor of the late Ralph Lowe for his longtime leadership in the energy industry and his family’s generous support of Texas Christian University, effective immediately.

Mary Ralph Lowe, a member of the TCU Board of Trustees, made a significant philanthropic investment to help endow and name the Ralph Lowe Energy Institute as a tribute to her late father. Her gift also supports Lead On: A Campaign for TCU, the university’s most ambitious philanthropic campaign in its nearly 150-year history.

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TCU receives $10 million gift for endowed scholarships in College of Education’s Andrews Institute

The late Paul E. Andrews, Jr., has made a $10 million gift to endow scholarships within TCU’s Andrews Institute of Mathematics & Science Education. As part of Lead On: A Campaign for TCU, the gift bolsters one of its highest priorities, which is increasing the endowment for TCU’s people, programs and progress.

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