U of M receives $5.5 million Dunavant gift to endow five chairs
Students walk on University of Memphis campus. The Billy Dunavant Foundation gift will establish five endowed chairs as well as professorships. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The Billy Dunavant Foundation gift will establish the the Laura Butler Ford chair in nursing, three chairs in supply chain management and one in agritech and regenerative agriculture.
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Bill Hardgrave Billy Dunavant University of Memphis The Billy Dunavant FoundationAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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