BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The estate of the late University at Buffalo professor Peter Ayers Nickerson, PhD, has donated $4.5 million dollars to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

The donation is aimed toward two initiatives, with $1.5 million being used to establish an endowed faculty position in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences.

The remaining $3 million will be used to create a dean's fund in Nickerson's name.

Nickerson spent nearly 50 years teaching at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.