On Jun. 7, 2017, the W. M. Keck Foundation gave $10 million to support a USC Health Sciences Campus facility critical to advanced patient care, expanding upon the foundationﾒs longstanding and transformative support to the university. Reaching back to 1999, when it named the Keck School of Medicine of USC through a $110 million gift, the W. M. Keck Foundation and its president have dramatically accelerated the progress of USCﾒs medical enterprise.

The foundationﾒs gift honors one of its founders, Willametta Keck Day, who died in 1985. She was the daughter of William Myron Keck and Alice B. Cominski Keck. William Myron Keck founded the Superior Oil Co. in 1921 and created the W. M. Keck Foundation three decades later.