English alumnus Dick Shahan recently made a $75,000 gift commitment to CU-鶹 — $50,000 of which established an endowment to create the Dick Shahan CU-鶹 Undergraduate Writing Competition, expected to generate an annual prize of $2,000 for a prose piece that features 鶹. The additional $25,000 will fund the Shahan Graduate Fellowships in the CU-鶹 English Department, providing an annual $1,000 research grant for an English graduate student.