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Polk Community College
~ May 15, 2008
Clear Springs developer Sanford Phelps is standing by his $12 million contribution to Polk Community College for a satellite campus in Bartow, even though the state Legislature decided not to provide matching funds for the project. Phelps, a Connecticut financier, also donated 20 acres of his Clear Springs land for the college site.
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Stanford University
~ May 14, 2008
Stanford University said a $4 million gift given by the Walton Family Foundation and matched by the school will establish an $8 million endowment to support the work of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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Ohio University
~ May 14, 2008
After about two and a half years in the works, Ohio University announced the largest cash donation ever from a living alumnus yesterday. Steven L. Schoonover and his wife, Barbara, flew in from their Louisiana home to present a $1 million check to OU President Roderick McDavis as a part of a $7.5 million donation. The money will be used to transform the old Baker University Center and the Radio-Television Building into the main building for the Scripps College of Communication.
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University Of Western Ontario
~ May 13, 2008
To honour their admiration and respect for nursing, which "deserves greater recognition," Arthur and Sonia Labatt have donated $10 million to the University of Western Ontario's School of Nursing. To honour the well-known philanthropists in return, the university renamed that school after the Labatts yesterday.
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University Of Chicago
~ May 13, 2008
Joe Mansueto (A.B. '78, M.B.A. '80), CEO of Morningstar Inc., and his wife, Rika Mansueto (A.B. '91), have donated $25 million to the University of Chicago to support the construction of a library that will house up to 3.5 million new volumes on campus. The donation will be Mansueto's largest philanthropic venture to date.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
~ May 13, 2008
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock says the former dean of its law school and his wife have donated a million dollars to the institution. Bob Denman, UALR director of development, said William H. Bowen and Connie Bowen provided the donation as an unrestricted gift. The school is already named after William Bowen.
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University of Buffalo
~ May 09, 2008
The University of Buffalo has received $5 million from one of its graduates. UB this morning announced that John N. Kapoor, a 1972 graduate, has given the money to construct a new home for the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences on the South Campus on Main Street. Kapoor is president of EJ Financial Enterprises of Lake Forest, Ill.
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University of St. Thomas
~ May 08, 2008
The University of St. Thomas announced it received a $10 million donation Thursday, its largest gift ever to be used towards scholarships. Eugene and Mary Frey made the donation to the St. Paul school, which will be used to fund grants to undergraduate students with financial need.
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University of California
~ May 08, 2008
A management school at the University of California, Los Angeles, has received a $10 million gift from a former student and his wife, the school's dean announced Thursday. The gift for the Anderson School of Management came from UCLA alumnus Laurence D. Fink, chairman and CEO of investment firm BlackRock, and his wife, Lori W. Fink. Laurence Fink graduated from the university in 1974 and the Anderson School in 1976. Some of the $10 million will be used to create an endowed chair in finance to support finance research and establish Ph.D. and MBA fellowships for students.
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University of Toronto
~ April 30, 2008
The University of Toronto is creating what it calls Canada's largest network of public health researchers and educators dedicated to disease prevention and health promotion after receiving a $20-million donation for a school of public health. The new school, named for benefactors Paul and Alessandra Dalla Lana, will deal with a range of public health issues, from emerging diseases like SARS to combating the rise of obesity to measuring the performance of Canada's health-care system.
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Harvard University
~ April 25, 2008
David Rockefeller has pledged $100-million to Harvard University, his alma mater. The pledge is the third gift of that size he has made in recent years. Approximately $70-million of the pledge will support study-abroad programs for undergraduates, as well as internships and service and research programs in foreign countries. Some of that money will also provide annual stipends for undergraduates studying abroad who otherwise could not afford to do so.
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Tufts and Lesley Universities
~ April 09, 2008
Tufts and Lesley Universities are sharing a $272-million gift from trusts established by the late Frank C. Doble, a businessman and Tufts alumnus, the universities plan to announce today. Each institution's $136-million share of two dissolved trusts will be the largest gift in its history.
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Washington State University
~ March 27, 2008
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given Washington State University $25-million to help build a new school for studying infectious diseases that affect both animals and humans. The grant, the largest private donation to the university, will support research on new vaccines, emerging diseases, and how to control diseases.
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Mount Allison University
~ March 13, 2008
The David and Faye Sobey Foundation and the Sobey Foundation have donated $500,000 to Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. The money will be used for endowed scholarships for students who have attended the school for at least a year.
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Weill Cornell Medical and College New York-Presbyterian Hospital
~ February 28, 2008
Ronald O. Perelman, chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, the majority shareholder of Revlon cosmetics, announced today that he is donating $50-million to support heart care and reproductive-medicine research at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. The money will be used to establish the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Care Institute and will support research and clinical care at the newly named Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine.
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Stony Brook University
~ February 27, 2008
James H. Simons, a hedge-fund manager, is giving Stony Brook University, in New York, a $60-million gift to be used for a center on geometry and physics. Mr. Simons, and his wife, Marilyn, had previously donated nearly $40-million to the university.
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University at Buffalo
~ January 28, 2008
The National Science Foundation has chosen the University at Buffalo to receive a prestigious $3.1 million grant to train a new generation of environmental experts, using the ecological treasures of Western New York and the Great Lakes basin as a "living laboratory."
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University of California, Berkeley
~ January 23, 2008
The University of California, Berkeley has announced grants totaling $3.1 million from craigslist and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media.
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Weill Cornell Medical College (New York Presbyterian Hospital)
~ January 17, 2008
Two major federal grants have been awarded to Public Health faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Dr. Kenneth W. Griffin is the recipient of a three-year $1.6 million NIH grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for research into the long-term effects of a school-based drug-abuse prevention program previously delivered to urban minority youth attending New York City middle schools. Dr. Inmaculada de Melo-Martin is the recipient of a two-year $150,000 National Science Foundation Grant (NSF) for innovative research examining the ways in which the concept of human dignity is used in current debates about contentious biotechnologies such as embryonic stem cell research, human genetic enhancement and the creation of human-nonhuman chimeras.
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Stanford University School of Medicine
~ January 11, 2008
John Scully, a California investor, and his wife, Regina, have donated $20-million to the Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics for stem-cell research.
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Johns Hopkins University
~ January 7, 2008
The Johns Hopkins University has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead a consortium that will study ways to improve the treatment of trachoma and to accelerate progress toward the goal of eliminating the disease.
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Case Western Reserve University
~ December 18, 2007
Case Western Reserve University's new Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation received a large boost on Tuesday, December 18, with the awarding of a $3.6 million grant from the Cleveland Foundation.
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University of Southern California
~ December 14, 2007
The University of Southern California announced on Thursday that it had received a $60-million bequest to support its hematology division and cancer center, reports the Los Angeles Times. The money came from the estate of Jane Anne Nohl, a longtime philanthropist who made her fortune with her late husband in investments and in Southern California real estate.
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Case Western Reserve University
~ December 7, 2007
Case Western Reserve University has received a $1.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the effectiveness of a program that aims to make it easier for students of lower-income families to obtain financial aid for college.
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University of Maryland
~ December 4, 2007
The University of Maryland has received $10-million from the businessman Barry Gossett, primarily to support its sports programs, reports The Washington Post. The gift was made in the form of a charitable trust, $8-million of which has been designated for use by the athletic department. The remaining $2-million will go toward academic scholarships.
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst
~ November 27, 2007
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst announced today that a federal grant will help the school become one of three national centers for the development of hydrogen fuel cells, a cleaner alternative to gas and oil. The three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will give UMass Amherst a prominent role in the effort to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. The award to the Fueling the Future Chemical Bonding Center will also put the school in a position to secure an additional $30 million in federal money.
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