$1 million gift to create endowed professorship

A Fort Worth, Texas, couple has pledged nearly $1 million to create a Kansas University professorship in mathematics, the KU Endowment Association announced Tuesday.

Belfour and Betty Joe Lorbeer McMillen will donate $960,000 upon their deaths to create the G. Baley Price Professorship in Mathematics Fund. Price taught at KU from 1937 to 1975 and still lives in Lawrence.

The McMillens also will donate $50,000 to create a scholarship fund for dance students at KU.

Belfour McMillen graduated from KU in 1949 and later was a representative for Liberty Mutual Insurance and an independent publishers representative.

Betty Joe McMillen attended KU before becoming a professional dancer on Broadway and with the June Taylor Dancers. She later was a private dance instructor in Fort Worth.

Courts

KU medical school worker pleads guilty to ID fraud

Kansas City, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kan., man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining a Social Security number to obtain a job with the Kansas University medical school.

Wayel Aly Nureldin, 45, faces a maximum of five years in a federal prison without parole.

His sentencing was scheduled for April 12.

Nureldin admitted Monday to U.S. District Judge G. Thomas VanBebber that on Aug. 29, 1988, and Sept. 13, 1996, he used different names to apply for and receive two Social Security numbers with the Social Security Administration.

Nureldin also admitted that he fraudulently obtained a Social Security number to obtain a license to practice medicine so that he could work at the medical school and be awarded a position in the graduate medical education program.