» Allison A. Jerome, associate dean for the day undergraduate program at Cha­­mi­­nade University, was one of 26 midlevel administrators in higher education nationwide selected by the Council of Independent Colleges and the American Academic Leadership Institute to participate in a yearlong Senior Leadership Academy.

Jerome will participate in a mentoring program, experiential learning projects and a series of readings and case studies. Individuals chosen for the program are midlevel administrators in higher education who aspire to senior leadership positions in independent colleges or universities.

» The University of Kansas Medical Center will use a $1 million gift to create a physiology professorship.

The university’s endowment announced the gift Monday from Jim Osborn of Hono­­lulu.

The gift honors Osborn’s daughter, who worked in physiology at the medical center in 1968 and 1969 before dying in a car accident in 1970. At the time of her death, Kathleen Osborn was a junior at the University of Missouri.

Paul Cheney, chairman of the molecular and integrative physiology department, is the first recipient of the Kathleen M. Osborn Chair in Molecular and Integrative Physiology.