Cornell Receives $80 Million to Fund Research Center
Cornell University is receiving the largest gift the school has ever received from an individual. The University announced last Thursday that it was getting a gift of $80 million from alum David Atkinson.
Seventy-two-year-old Atkinson, who graduated from Cornell’s agriculture college in 1960, made his fortune on Wall Street and now owns and manages an investment firm.
The gift is to fund a research center that will produce more effective and less adverse practices in agriculture, medicine, energy and other constantly-changing arenas in economic growth. Read the rest of this entry »
posted on October 31st, 2010
by Jessie, Staff Writer
Tags: agriculture, Cornell University, David Atkinson, energy, medicine, sustainability, The David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Wall Street
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