This aerial photo, looking to the southeast over Kansas University’s Daisy Hill, shows the McCollum Hall replacement project: the two buildings under construction at center. Pictured from left are Templin, Lewis, Hashinger and Ellsworth residence halls. The two new freshman-focused residence halls, at a cost of nearly 8 million, are to open in August 2015. They replace the nearly 50-year-old, 10-story McCollum Hall. Iowa Street is visible at the bottom of the photograph.

Kansas University has announced names for the two new residence halls being built on Daisy Hill: Madison A. and Lila M. Self Hall for the north building and Charles W. Oswald Hall for the south building.

The Kansas Board of Regents approved the names during its meeting Wednesday in Topeka.

The names honor three of KU’s most generous benefactors, now deceased.

The Selfs are the single most generous donors in KU history. The couple’s donations supported students in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines, business and economics, and their final estate gift announced in December of 2014 brought their lifetime total to $106 million.

Oswald is one of the university’s top five highest donors. His $22 million in lifetime giving included the creation of four professorships in the Department of Economics, as well as funds for faculty research in the department, along with unrestricted gifts.

“The generosity of Al and Lila Self and Charley Oswald has truly changed the fabric of our university and enhanced the lives of countless students and faculty,” KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a KU news release. “It is only fitting that their generosity be remembered through buildings that will house future generations of Jayhawks as they begin their lives on Mount Oread.”

The two 350-student residence halls, exclusively for first-year students, are replacing McCollum Hall. The halls will be open for the fall 2015 semester.