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University of Northern Colorado
~ October 10, 2009
The University of Northern Colorado will receive a $1.5 million planned gift from Dr. Mary Jo Drew to create a distinguished professorship and memorial scholarship, as well as to fund student research, UNC announced Friday. Drew, chief medical officer of blood services at the American Red Cross chapter in Portland, Ore., made the donation to UNC's College of Natural and Health Sciences. She earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences from UNC in 1979, en route to earning her medical degree.
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University of North Carolina - Charlotte
~ August 20, 2009
Philanthropists Leon and Sandra Levine parted with more of their foundation's wealth Tuesday, donating $9.3 million to UNC Charlotte over 10 years for a merit scholarship aimed at developing community service leaders.
The offering, announced at a news conference on campus, is the largest individual academic gift in the university's history. It triples the amount of four-year aid that UNCC offers incoming freshmen.
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University of Chicago
~ November 7, 2008
The economy’s turmoil notwithstanding, an alumnus will give the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business $300-million, the university announced on Thursday. The gift is the largest ever to a business school, the university said. (See The Chronicle’s list of recent top gifts.) The donor, David G. Booth, credits principles he learned at the business school for the success of the investment firm he and another alumnus started in 1981, Dimensional Fund Advisors. Mr. Booth, the company’s chief executive, earned a degree from the business school in 1971. As a graduate student, he was a research assistant for Eugene F. Fama, a finance professor at the business school who has since served on the board of Dimensional Fund Advisors, along with other faculty members from the business school. Mr. Booth said in a statement released by the university that his first course at the business school was with Mr. Fama, "and it was a life-changing event for me." "We built Dimensional Fund Advisors around his set of ideas," said Mr. Booth, 61. "It would be hard to find anyone who benefited more from a University of Chicago education and from the faculty at Chicago than I have."
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University of Missouri
~ November 7, 2008
Officials at the University of Missouri at Columbia plans to announce that the school has met its $1-billion fund-raising goal, making it one of a couple of dozen public universities around the country to reach that mark, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two gifts in recent weeks, including $4.6-million from Robert and Sue Weiser to the geology department and $2-million from Harry and Ann Cornell to the business school, helped the university reach its goal.
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Oklahoma State University
~ October 27, 2008
Rumors that T. Boone Pickens planned to give Oklahoma State University $63-million turned out to be true, the Associated Press reports.
The money will go to athletics programs. Mr. Pickens gave the university $165-million in 2005 for athletics facilities. He ranked No. 5 on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of the most-generous donors that year.view source
Cornell University
~ October 16, 2008
Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist and Cornell University alumnus, announced today a gift of $50-million to his alma mater to help recruit top Indian students to the campus and to support joint research projects with Indian universities in agriculture and nutrition, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education.The gift comes from the Tata Trusts, a group of philanthropic organizations run by Mr. Tata, chairman of the business conglomerate Tata Sons Ltd.
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Azusa Pacific University
~ October 14, 2008
Azusa Pacific University received $7.5 million, the largest donation in the university's history, officials said Tuesday.
The gift was one of three totaling $11.2 million from friends of the university-unnamed at this time-followed by a $750,000 gift from the Los Angeles-based Fletcher Jones Foundation, which will support construction of the university's new science center. The combined gifts total nearly $12 million. To date, almost $13.5 million has been raised toward the science center.view source
Ozarks Technical Community College
~ October 14, 2008
The Ozarks Technical Community College will receive its largest single donation of $1 million, which stands to double the college's endowment fund, OTC announced Tuesday. The donation is an anonymous planned gift, which the college will receive when the donor dies, OTC officials said. The president said the donor requested the donation -- which will be managed by the Community Foundation of the Ozarks -- be used for scholarships exclusively.
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Girton College
~ October 13, 2008
Girton College, Cambridge, is delighted to announce that it is receiving a majordonation of £5 million towards its educational mission. The donation comes from an alumnus who wishes to remain anonymous. This magnificent gift is the largest Girton has received in recent times. Donated in response to the College's second development campaign, as a gift to the College, it is also a gift to Collegiate Cambridge's 800th Anniversary Campaign.
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Tulane University
~ October 1, 2008
The ExxonMobil Foundation announced today a donation of $1.6 million to launch a pilot program in four New Orleans public high schools to help students prepare for college. The donation to Tulane University will establish a training and incentive program to increase participation in the Advanced Placement Program(1) at four public high schools in Orleans Parish over the next five years, starting next spring. "We are very proud to help offer this high-impact program to the students of New Orleans," said Gerald McElvy, president of the ExxonMobil Foundation. "Preparing students for college is critical to New Orleans, Louisiana and the nation. This program has the necessary tools and our partners have the necessary resources to make this a huge success." Today's announcement took place at John McDonogh High School, one of the first schools selected to pilot the program. "We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform public education in New Orleans. This generous gift from ExxonMobil hastens the day when our school system will serve as a model for other cities around the country," said Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University, who accepted the donation on behalf of the Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University.
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McGill University
~ September 15, 2008
McGill University is pleased to announce that its Cancer Centre has been renamed the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre, thanks to a major gift from the philanthropic couple. The Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Centre represents a fusion between the McGill Cancer Centre and the Molecular Oncology Group of the McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital Pavillion, and is an integral part of the new Life Sciences Complex. The Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation’s generosity will support a Chair to attract a leading scholar who will make significant contributions to the study of cancer, with emphasis on pulmonary cancer. In addition, this generous donation will help train young researchers to lead tomorrow’s cancer breakthroughs. "Without basic discoveries, we would not be in business," said Mr. Goodman, a pioneer of the generic drug industry whose Montreal-based company, Pharmascience Inc., celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. "We are grateful to be able to invest in the efforts of McGill’s cancer investigators whose groundbreaking work will undoubtedly advance clinical treatments." "On behalf of the Faculty of Medicine, I applaud visionaries like the Goodmans, whose strong beliefs, passion and forward thinking will enable McGill to pioneer new frontiers in medicine," said Richard I. Levin, Vice-Principal (Health Affairs) and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. "Thanks to their support, the Life Sciences Complex has become a reality, heralding this new era that will improve knowledge of health and disease for the people in our communities, here in Quebec and around the world."
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University of Western Ontario
~ September 14, 2008
The T.R. Meighen Family Foundation has pledged more than $1 million to two projects at The University of Western Ontario. A gift of $1 million from the Foundation will be supporting the Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion – Western’s Green Building. This building is currently under construction and is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2009. A second gift from the Meighen Foundation, of $150,000, will support the renovation of the Talbot Theatre project in recognition of Western President Paul Davenport’s many accomplishments over the 15 years of his leadership at the university. "The generous gift from the Meighen Family Foundation will support one of Western’s most exciting environmental projects - the Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion," said Davenport. "I am also honoured and delighted that the Foundation and its President, Kelly Meighen are supporting a project that is very special to me – the renovation of Talbot Theatre."
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University of Minnesota
~ September 7, 2008
University of Minnesota Provost Tom Sullivan announced today a new $1.3 million system-wide initiative designed to support a broad range of faculty activities in the arts, humanities and design. The newly created "Imagine Fund" is supported by a major gift from the McKnight Foundation and will begin this fall, with full implementation coming by 2009. Additional financial support comes from the reallocation of existing funds within the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research, as well as from the creation of chairs through the Permanent University Fund. A major highlight of the Imagine Fund is the creation of 250 annual awards worth $3,000 each available to U of M arts, humanities and design faculty. Faculty may use these funds in a variety of ways to support and enhance their research and teaching. "This program is a true step forward in recognizing the need to provide robust support for the arts, humanities and design," said Imagine Fund committee member and university dance professor Carl Flink. "This investment will almost certainly encourage a proliferation of new ideas and projects among the artmakers at the university."
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Northern Kentucky University
~ August 19, 2008
Northern Kentucky University President James Votruba predicts a $15 million donation to the school’s College of Business will propel the 40-year-old university into a major catalyst for regional growth. The gift, from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr./US Bank Foundation, will be used to attract at least three high-profile faculty members, provide scholarships and international-study opportunities to dozens of students and help NKU achieve its goal of doubling its number of degrees awarded to 3,000 by 2020. That growth goal is a major element in Northern Kentucky’s Vision 2015 plan, which calls for increasing degree awards and enhancing work-force training initiatives to attract 50,000 new jobs.
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University of Utah
~ August 11, 2008
A new $12-million gift to the University of Utah, from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, in Salt Lake City, will help give local schoolchildren greater access to arts education, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. The gift, announced on August 11, will help defray the costs of constructing the $30-million Beverley Taylor Sorenson Arts and Education Complex, slated to open in late 2011. It will also support a new interdisciplinary program at the university that will give Utah schoolchildren opportunities to learn about music, dance, and visual arts. The state’s public schools have seen cutbacks in arts education in recent years. "I feel overwhelmed," Beverly Sorenson, a former schoolteacher and the widow of the entrepreneur James Sorenson, said at the ceremony announcing her family’s gift, the university’s largest ever gift supporting the arts. "Art education is essential to the success of children as individuals and as citizens. But no single group can bring quality art teaching programs to Utah schools. We all have to work together." The Utah program, a partnership between the colleges of Fine Arts and Education, will train teachers across academic and artistic disciplines to teach kids how to draw, sing, dance, act, and sculpt. In June, Ms. Sorenson gave $4.5 million to Brigham Young University to support a similar program. Said Michael Young, president of the University of Utah, "Integrating arts into the education of our young students early in their development will have a profound effect on their future learning, not only in the arts but in all areas, including math, sciences, and language."
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University of Oklahoma
~ July 29, 2008
The University of Oklahoma's Natural Gas Engineering and Management program has a new endowed chair. The position was created with a $500,000 gift from Tulsa-based ONEOK. School and company officials announced its creation Tuesday. The company also gave the university $1 million as an endowment to the school's Natural Gas Engineering and Management program, part of the Mewbourne College of Earth and Energy at the school.
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St. Catharines College
~ July 21, 2008
Educational philanthropist, Harvey McGrath, who recently gave £4 million to the University of Cambridge, has made a second multi-million pound gift, this time to his college. Mr McGrath, who graduated with first class honours in Geography from St Catharine's College in 1974, has pledged £3.6 million to support both teaching and a key building project on the "Island site" - at the heart of the college.
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Temple University
~ July 20, 2008
Surprise $10-Million Left to Pa. Charities James Ebbert, the son of a sharecropper who lived modestly in Quakertown, Pa., left a $10-million fortune to nonprofit groups when he died last December, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Ebbert left $1-million to St. Luke’s Quakertown Hospital; $1-million to be divided between Millersville University and Temple University, the alma mater of his late wife, Martha; and other gifts to three churches, two private schools, a local fire company, the local YMCA, the Salvation Army, and the Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. In 1946, as a high-school teacher, Mr. Ebbert bought K/L Company and sold lumber, coal, and sand. He lived frugally and invested his money well, says the newspaper. Most people did not know he was wealthy or planned to leave a major bequest, the newspaper says. "Uncle Jim told me years ago, ‘We made it here in Quakertown; it’ll stay here in Quakertown,’" says his niece, Susan Ebbert Wambaugh.
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University of Utah
~ July 20, 2008
A foundation tied to a locally-based nuclear waste storage company has donated $1.5 million to the University of Utah's engineering department. EnergySolutions Foundation and the university announced the donation Monday. The gift will support an endowed chair and expand research facilities in the College of Engineering, which is home to one of just 29 nuclear engineering programs in the U.S.
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Princeton University
~ June 30, 2008
Gerhard R. Andlinger, an investment manager, has pledged $100-million to Princeton University, in large part to stimulate research and education on efforts to prevent global warming. University officials said that Mr. Andlinger intends to pay off all of the pledge in about four or five years.
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University of New Hampshire
~ June 5, 2008
Millionaire Peter T. Paul donated $25 million to his alma mater Thursday - the single largest donation in the institution's history. The money - which was offered as a challenge grant that must be matched via fundraising in the years ahead - will go toward a new business building and school, the "Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics," UNH President Mark Huddleston said after the ceremony.
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Oklahoma State University
~ May 20, 2008
A historic $100 million academic gift from legendary energy executive, philanthropist and Oklahoma State University (OSU) alumnus T. Boone Pickens will dramatically transform OSU academic advancements by providing funds to endow major faculty chairs and professorships.
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