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$5.5M Gift By UofM Alum Billy Dunavant's Estate Creates Endowed Chairs In Research Focus Areas
October 04, 2022
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Oct. 4 (TNSfund) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release:

Five new endowed chairs and professorships have been established at the University of Memphis thanks to a $5.5 million gift from the estate of alumnus William B. "Billy" Dunavant ('54). This will endow three Dunavant Chairs in supply chain management and one in agritech & regenerative agriculture. It also establishes the Laura Butler Ford Chair in nursing.

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