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Ruth and Bill Scott
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Ruth and Bill Scott have joined Chuck Durham as the leading philanthropists to support UNMC through gifts to the University of Nebraska Foundation.
On Wednesday, the Scotts announced they would give another gift to UNMC. The latest gift calls for two primary amphitheaters in the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education Center to be named after legendary UNMC physician Fred Paustian, M.D., and his wife, Mary Ann “Maisie.”
As part of the Scotts’ gift, one-half of a floor in a soon-to-be-constructed, 10-story research tower will be named the Frederick F. Paustian, M.D., Gastroenterology Research Laboratories.
Here is a summary of the Scotts’ gifts to UNMC:
2003 – Ruth and Bill Scott were among 10 major donors to fund the Durham Research Center, a $77 million facility providing UNMC with a world-class research building. The Scotts’ donation created the Ruth and Bill Scott Neuroscience Research Laboratories on the third floor of the Durham Research Center.
2003 – Ruth and Bill Scott supported the orthopaedic research laboratories at the Scott Transfer Technology Center at the Peter Kiewit Institute.
2006 – Ruth and Bill Scott were the largest of eight principal donors to fund construction of the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education, a $52.7 million building expected to be completed by April 2008. The Sorrell Center will serve as home to the university’s College of Medicine and will benefit all of UNMC’s educational programs by providing state-of-the-art facilities. Given the size of their gift, the building could have been named for the Scotts. Instead, they chose to have the building named in honor of Mike Sorrell, M.D., a legendary physician and administrator at UNMC for the past 35 years.
2006 – Ruth and Bill Scott made a gift to create the Nebraska Arthritis Outcomes Research Center at UNMC. The center will seek to better understand the epidemiology of arthritis and to better analyze the determinants that predict outcomes for arthritis sufferers. Located on the third floor of Poynter Hall, the center is directed by Kevin Garvin, M.D., professor and chairman of the department of orthopaedic surgery, and James O’Dell, M.D., professor of internal medicine and chief of the rheumatology and immunology section.
2006 – Ruth and Bill Scott made a gift to honor their longtime friends, Fred Paustian, M.D., and his wife, Mary Ann “Maisie.” Dr. Paustian was the first specialty-trained gastroenterologist in Nebraska, and through his leadership, gastroenterology became one of UNMC’s clinical areas of excellence. The gift will designate the two primary amphitheaters in the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education to be named in honor of the Paustians. They will be called the Frederick F. Paustian, M.D. Amphitheater and the Mary Ann “Maisie” Paustian Amphitheater. In addition, the Scotts’ gift will provide funding to name several new laboratories in a new, 10-story research tower the Frederick F. Paustian, M.D., Gastroenterology Research Laboratories. Construction of the second research tower, which will mirror the Durham Research Center, will begin in early 2007 and be completed in late 2008 or early 2009.