photo by: Mike Yoder

The new School of Pharmacy building, pictured on the north side of the Monarch Watch station on West Campus, offers many amenities to students and the public. A cafe and a soda fountain serve up food and drink, and a storm shelter is open to the public during severe weather. Visitors are also welcome to view the small museum in the building.

So you don’t have a building at Kansas University named after you yet? (Welcome to the club.) Don’t give up hope. At least seven still have “naming opportunities,” according to KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, who I asked about this after reporting that KU is naming the Art and Design Building for former chancellor E. Laurence “Larry” Chalmers. They are:

• M2SEC (Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center)

• LEEP2 (Learned Engineering Expansion Phase 2)

• BEST (Business Engineering Science and Technology) Building at Edwards Campus

• Library Annex

• Multidisciplinary Research Building

• Structural Testing and Student Projects Facility

• School of Pharmacy building

photo by: Mike Yoder

The new School of Pharmacy building, pictured on the north side of the Monarch Watch station on West Campus, offers many amenities to students and the public. A cafe and a soda fountain serve up food and drink, and a storm shelter is open to the public during severe weather. Visitors are also welcome to view the small museum in the building.

photo by: Thad Allender

Kansas University faculty and staff gather outside the new Library Annex on west campus. The structure at 1880 Westbrook Drive can house up to 1.6 million volumes and was built to relieve overcrowding in the libraries.

Especially now that all former KU chancellors have buildings named for them, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little seems a strong contender to get her name on one. However, KU’s facility naming policy says buildings will not be named for sitting chancellors, so she’s off the table for now.

The policy says buildings generally are named for “distinguished individuals who have made extraordinary contributions of a scholarly, professional, or public service nature related to the university’s mission.” It goes on to say that, “in some cases, buildings may be named for major donors to the construction of the building.”

The latter has been true in most cases for buildings under construction right now, including Capitol Federal Hall (KU’s new School of Business building on Naismith Drive, which got $20 million from the Capitol Federal Foundation) and the DeBruce Center (home for the original rules of basketball adjacent to Allen Fieldhouse, named for KU grads and chief donors Paul and Katherine DeBruce). While their namesakes are deceased and donations weren’t necessarily toward the dorms’ construction, the two new residence halls being built on Daisy Hill also are being named for major donors. They will be called Madison A. and Lila M. Self Hall (the single most generous donors in KU history, with a lifetime donation of $106 million) and Charles W. Oswald Hall (one of the university’s top five donors, with $22 million in lifetime giving).

What would you name the remaining nameless buildings? Comments are open, and so is Twitter — tag us @LJW_KU #kunamingrights.