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The Great Scotts

Listed below is a listing of all the UNMC projects for which Ruth and Bill Scott have made major contributions:

2008

• Lead gift on College of Public Health building.
• Lead gift on an addition to College of Nursing in Omaha.
• Lead gift on a four-season student plaza that includes a mechanically frozen ice rink and architectural/artistic feature.

2007 

• Established the Nebraska Arthritis Outcomes Research Center located on the third floor of Poynter Hall. The center conducts a variety of studies committed to discovering new pathways for increasing effective therapies for arthritis sufferers.

2006

• Lead gift on the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education, the new home for the UNMC College of Medicine.
• Made a gift to honor two respected friends -- legendary UNMC internist, Fred Paustian, M.D., and his wife, Mary Ann “Maisie.” The gift named the two primary amphitheaters in the Sorrell Center after the Paustians. In addition, the gift established the Frederick F. Paustian, M.D., Gastroenterology Research Laboratories in the second research tower currently under construction at UNMC. The second research tower is expected to be completed in January 2009.

2003

• The Scotts’ contribution to the Durham Research Center established the Ruth and Bill Scott Neuroscience Research Laboratories located on the third floor and inspired the development of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Biomechanics Laboratory at the Scott Technology Center on the Pacific Street campus of the University of Nebraska at Omaha.