Published
March 4, 2005
by Oscar Rennebohm Foundation
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation today announced a $15 million gift to help build the planned Interdisciplinary Research Complex (IRC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The IRC has a total estimated cost of $133.9 million. The complex will replace outdated research facilities and help unify the Medical School on the west campus. The first phase of the project will consist of a three-story base with a five-story tower adjacent to UW Hospital and Clinics and will include laboratory facilities, offices, an imaging center and animal quarters.
“The IRC will be home to talented, dedicated researchers from many disciplines working together to find solutions to society’s most complex health problems,” says Steven F. Skolaski, president of the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation. “The Rennebohm Foundation is certainly proud to be a partner in this project, which will someday benefit all of us here and people literally around the world. Read More
Published
December 5, 1997
by Oscar Rennebohm Foundation
MADISON, Wisconsin–The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents today (Friday) unanimously approved the naming of the new UW-Madison pharmacy building after former Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm.Construction of the $45 million structure will begin early next spring and is expected to be completed by September of the year 2000. The new facility will be located across the street from the UW Hospital and Clinics.
Oscar Rennebohm, who died in 1968, was a successful businessman who founded Rennebohm Drug Stores, Inc., Madison’s once-largest drug store chain. He was elected governor of Wisconsin in 1948, and was appointed a UW regent in 1952 and served until 1961. He also served as president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation and as director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Read More