The $72 million facility will help advance the Klipsch Educators College and healthcare education at the university, as well as serve as the anchor of the university’s $102 million investment in Indianapolis.

The gift comes from Professor Emeritus of Indiana State University Dr. Jerry Cockrell and his wife, Jan Cockrell, and will establish the Jerry and Jan Cockrell Experiential Learning Endowment for the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology and the Jerry and Jan Cockrell Experiential Learning Endowment for the College of Health and Human Services.

The $9.4 million in grant funding comes from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute and will allow the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research to continue operating as an NCI Basic Laboratory Cancer Center.

The City of Evansville received a $125,000 Nutrition Access, Affordability, and Education Grant from the African American Mayors Association (AAMA) and the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America (ABFHA).

The initiative is aided by a grant from the FSSA Division of Mental Health and Addiction.

The grant will fund the university’s Kokomo Creek Clean Water Corridor restoration project.

The $3.5 million purchase of a property in Huntington, West Virginia will become the dedicated home of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and the Marshall Community Health Institute.

The new program is the university’s second graduate degree program and its first graduate degree in a STEM subject.

The scholarship will provide support to students who are studying in the Gary E. West College of Business at West Liberty University.

The WVU Parkersburg Board of Governors met on June 9, 2026 to approve three new programs and $2 million in renovations at the Innovation and Technology Center.