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Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., has been selected as the next executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University following a nationwide search, Charles R. Bantz, Chancellor of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), announced on June 3. Full-text press release is available via The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, 6.3.09. …
The University of Pittsburgh announced that a center within its Swanson School of Engineering is receiving a $22 million gift from the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Pitt declined to release a list of previous foundation gift amounts but described the Mellon gift as one of the largest such gifts in the university’s history. The money awarded to Pitt’s Center for Energy will further research and education aimed at better energy techn…
The University of Texas Medical Branch announced last week that The Moody Foundation of Galveston has committed $25.5 million to explore various research opportunities and to help construct the new Jennie Sealy Hospital on the university’s island campus. The gifts — including the foundation’s largest single contribution to UTMB — were announced during campus celebrations of the official groundbreaking for the hospital. The $25.5 million commitme…
There’s something funny about a new set of scholarships at the University of Portland, starting with the name: the Brian Doyle Scholarships for Gentle & Sidelong Humor. The awards will go to undergraduates at the Roman Catholic institution who propose projects—such as films, comic books, essays, or performances—that make people laugh and draw them together. Brian Doyle, the writer for whom the scholarships are named, is amused by their…
The Duke Endowment has announced a $35 million grant to Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, to support the university’s science and scholarship programs and for facility improvements. One of the largest gifts ever awarded to a historically black college and university (HBCU) includes $25 million to a build a new science center as part of JCSU’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program; $5.5 mil…
Washington University in St. Louis has announced an $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify new ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent malnutrition in infants and children. Through the Breast Milk, Gut Microbiome and Immunity Project, an international team of scientists led by Jeffrey I. Gordon, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the university’s Center for Genome S…
College and university endowments netted a sizable average gain of 19.8 percent in the 2011 fiscal year, but despite the growth, they will still not make up the ground lost in the 2008-9 credit crisis for years to come. That’s according to a preliminary report released on Monday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund Institute. Endowments have turned the corner since 2009, when the averag…
Sam Houston State University has received a $25 million pledge from Pennsylvania-based Therm-Omega-Tech, Inc. to support the university’s engineering technology components within the current industrial technology program and to establish a new engineering technology program. The founder of Therm-Omega-Tech, Inc., is alumnus Frederick Pirkle, who graduated from SHSU with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial arts in 1970 and a master’s degre…
The University of Toronto has launched the largest university fundraising campaign in Canadian history, setting an ambitious $2-billion target as it recovers from the blows of a global recession. The new campaign – twice as large as the university’s most recent effort, which ended in 2003 – was unveiled at the university’s Convocation Hall, and suggests Canadian schools are getting more optimistic that donors are ready to loosen their purse stri…
The Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine has received $18.7 million for two major environmental health projects designed to help Gulf Coast residents affected by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Environmental Health Capacity and Literacy Project is a $15 million, five-year Tulane program included in the Gulf Region Health Outreach Program funded through BP’s settlement of class action medical claims. T…
