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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced grants totaling more than $50 million to small colleges and universities working to improve undergraduate science education in the United States. A total of forty-three four-year grants ranging from $800,000 to $1.5 million were awarded to institutions of higher education working to create more engaging science [...]
UC Davis psychology professor Robert Emmons practices what he researches, expressing thanks for a $5.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to advance the science of gratitude. “Thanks to the generosity of the John Templeton Foundation, we will be able to rapidly grow the science of gratitude and expand the scientific database of this [...]
To celebrate 30 years of Newman’s Own, the Newman’s Own Foundation will announce on Wednesday a commitment to give away at least $30 million to various charities this year. The foundation, which is based in Westport, Conn., and owns the famous food company, has awarded $350 million in grants during its existence and 2012 will [...]
Davidson College has received $25 million from an alumnus to fund scholarships, the school announced Sunday at its commencement ceremony. The donation is the second-largest in the school’s history, Davidson officials said. Ted Baker, a businessman, military veteran and member of the Davidson Class of 1957, made the donation to fund the Baker-Vagt Scholarship, which [...]
Saundra Baker was 25 when she met her husband to be, William Lane. He was 50. She was standing in line for last-minute “rush’’ tickets at Boston’s Metropolitan Theater, and ready to give up. “I was just starting to go when a gentleman came up and offered me a spare ticket,’’ said Mrs. Lane, 73, [...]
The Oregon Community Foundation announced Wednesday that its will receive $150-million from the estate of a northwestern industrialist who died in December, says the Portland Business Journal. The donation from the late Fred Fields is nearly four times the previous largest gift to the foundation, which said it would use the money to create a [...]
The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $25 million gift from alumni Mindy and Jon Gray to establish a center for the treatment and prevention of cancers associated with inherited BRCA mutations. The Basser Research Center, named in honor of Mindy Gray’s sister, Faith Basser, who died of ovarian cancer at the age of 44, [...]
The National Museum of Natural History has announced a gift of $35 million from David H. Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries, to help construct a new dinosaur exhibition hall. The largest, most complex renovation in the museum’s history will enable it to showcase its collection of forty-six million fossils and present the most [...]
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for computer science, the university plans to announce on Tuesday. The foundation’s $60 million grant to establish the center, to be called the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at U.C. [...]
American Red Cross is launching a next-generation volunteer management system that will help better recruit, manage and deploy volunteers, thanks to the support of a $3 million grant from facilities maintenance supplier, W.W. Grainger, Inc. The online system, called Volunteer Connection, will allow new volunteers to match their skills and areas of interest to needs [...]
