Ohio State University has announced a gift of $13.5 million from more than thirty members of the Crane family, many of them OSU graduates, in support of initiatives designed to advance sports medicine and early childhood and foreign-language education at the university.

Awarded as part of the $2.5 billion But for Ohio State campaign, the gift will be used to create the Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute, a the largest and comprehensive sports medicine facility in the country. Named for Jameson Crane, a former OSU football player who led the family's Columbus-based private holding and management company, the institute will offer a broad range of personalized care, research, and educational opportunities in a multidisciplinary model that includes programs in concussions, asthma, nutrition, psychology, human performance, physical therapy, athletic training, and computer modeling.

In addition, the gift will support the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at the Schoenbaum Family Center and the Loann Crane Advanced Language Institute. Named after community volunteer and Crane Group director Loann Crane, the institute will take students with advanced language skills and a disciplinary focus in fields like engineering or architecture and teach them to function effectively as professionals in that language.

"The Crane family has an extraordinary legacy of support at Ohio State, and we are humbled by this tremendous gift — one which comes from thirty family members spanning three generations," said OSU president E. Gordon Gee. "Through this most recent support, the Cranes will advance critical research and education programs in sports medicine, languages, and early childhood development. And, in so doing, they set a powerful example of commitment and philanthropy for all of us."