According to Mizzou Athletic, they received a generous philanthropic gift from longtime benefactor Audrey J. Walton, who is the wife of Bud Walton, the brother of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

Audrey Walton has received the John Charles Polanyi Prize in Literature for her scholarship on sacred language, literary cultures, vernacularity and world religions, with particular focus on the early ...

Audrey J. Walton made the largest investment in Olympic sports in Mizzou Athletics history. Walton’s “generous philanthropic ...