Stig Östlund

tisdag, december 20, 2011

Donor of $350 Million Cornell Gift Is Identified




Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Monday that Cornell University had been chosen to build a high-tech graduate school. The school will be operated with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.


The donor whose $350 million gift will be critical in building Cornell University’s new high-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island is Atlantic Philanthropies, whose founder, Charles F. Feeney, is a Cornell alumnus who made billions of dollars through the Duty Free Shoppers Group.

Read more >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html?_r=1&emc=na


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