UK Board Accepts $10 Million Gift From Don Jacobs Sr. Charitable Foundation

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Sept. 9, 2016) — The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees today accepted a $10 million gift from The Don Jacobs Sr. Charitable Foundation during the board's meeting in Bowling Green.

Announced earlier in the week, the gift is a further investment in UK's undergraduate science education.  The majority of the funds — $8 million — will go toward the recently completed academic science building that now takes the name Don & Cathy Jacobs Science Building. The remainder of the gift will fund future academic and research investments yet to be determined.

The legacy of Lexington businessman and philanthropist Don Jacobs, who died in April 2015, and his wife Cathy already lives on across the UK campus.  Their gifts to UK, now in excess of $20 million, are also benefitting the Gatton College of Business and Economics, UK Chandler Hospital, Markey Cancer Center and the College of Medicine. 

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