Konnekers' Latest Donation Brings Total
Contributions Over $15.5
Million
Ohio
University alumni Will and Ann Lee
Konneker have agreed to donate $2.5
million to Ohio University to create an
endowed chair in the College of Arts and
Sciences, bringing their total donations
to Ohio University to more than $15.5
million.
Two
million dollars of the gift will create an
endowed faculty chair for
interdisciplinary work in the college. The
remaining $500,000 will establish a
dissertation write-up fund for graduate
students who are in the final stages of
completing their dissertations and another
fund for general graduate student research
support.
Will
Konneker completed a bachelor's degree in
chemistry and mathematics in 1943 and a
master's degree in physics in 1947 at Ohio
University. He has held numerous positions
on university boards, and was a pioneer in
the early years of nuclear physics,
working during World War II on the
Manhattan Project. He went on to create or
co-found seven companies, including
Nuclear Consultants, Inc., a supplier of
radioactive isotopes for medicine. He has
been one of the most sought-after experts
in the use of radioisotopes in diagnostic
and therapeutic medicine.
An
honorary alumna of the university, Ann Lee
attended Ohio University and completed a
bachelor's degree at Ohio State University
in 1946. She assisted in the restoration
of the Konneker Alumni Center, received
the university's Baker Award in 1998 and
has been an active participant in
university fund-raising campaigns, alumni
events and other university
activities.
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