Warren Gould, former director of Development and Alumni Affairs in the early years of UT Dallas, recently announced the establishment of an endowment.
According to documents, The Jack Mize, PhD, Professorship Endowment in Natural Sciences and Mathematics is a $100,000 permanent endowment for the school to support research-enhancing activities of the professorship holder.
“My son (the late Jim Gould) and I were very close to our cousin, Jack Mize, and it seemed a natural opportunity to remember him through a permanent endowment at UT Dallas,” Gould said when asked about the gift.
According to an obituary in The Dallas Morning News, Jack Mize, who hailed from Kansas City, received a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University and a PhD in nuclear physics from Iowa State University. He served in World War II as a Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters as a gunnery officer on destroyer escorts.
Mize pioneered in the field of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, worked for seven years at Los Alamos National Laboratory and was a delegate to the United Nations’ Atoms for Peace conference in Switzerland in 1958.
In 1960, Mize moved to Richardson, where he worked in the field of solid-state electronics and computer-chip design at Texas Instruments and other Dallas companies.
On Jan. 15, 2006, while registering for an advanced physics class in String Theory, the 82-year-old Mize suffered a fatal fall on the UT Dallas campus.
“We are extremely appreciative of Mr. Gould’s generous contribution to the school. Professorships such as this are transformative regarding our school recruiting and retaining the best and brightest faculty to UT Dallas,” said NSM Dean David Hyndman, PhD.
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