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June 2007
- $100 Million Here, $100 Million There...
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jun 2, 07 6:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - And, as Illinois' late Senator Everett Dirksen once said, you are talking about real money. Tom Siebel, University of Illinois graduate and founder of Siebel Systems, a customer management relationship software firm, pledged $100 million in his will to the U of I. More »
- U Chicago Receives $100 Mil Gift
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jun 1, 07 9:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An anonymous donor has pledged the largest gift ever—$100 million—to the University of Chicago. The gift's purpose is to eliminate student loans for undergraduates from low-income families. The donor came from a family of modest means and has, quite obviously, done well for himself . The university identified the donor only as a man. More »
May 2007
- Marquette Snags $51 Mil Gift
  
  Associated Press | May 4, 07 3:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Raymond and Kathryn Eckstein donated $51 million to build Marquette University a new law school. The gift is the single largest gift to a Wisconsin educational institution, topping the $50 million John Morgridge and his wife gave to the University of Wisconsin. More »
March 2007
- $100 million? Purdue, for one, will take it.
  
  Indianapolis Star | Mar 16, 07
  
  Other universities, from North Carolina to California, have taken a look at the big money being offered by billionaire Alfred E. Mann to help commercialize biomedical research and have passed, deciding there were too many strings attached. But Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke sees something different -- an "exciting new model of technology transfer" that could speed up the process of turning faculty research into self-supporting companies in as little as two years, compared with about a decade now. Jischke courted Mann's foundation for more than a year, selling...

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Purdue University
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Purdue University , main campus at West Lafayette, Ind.; land-grant with state support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1874. It maintains campuses at Hammond (Calumet campus) and Westville (North Central campus) and, with Indiana Univ., at Fort Wayne and ...

Marquette University
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Marquette University at Milwaukee, Wis.; Jesuit; coeducational; chartered 1864, opened 1881. The school ...

University of Illinois
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

University of Illinois main campus at Urbana-Champaign; land-grant with state and federal support; coeducational; chartered 1867, opened 1868 as Illinois Industrial Univ., renamed 1885. It pioneered in vocational education. In 1946 the university began a two-year undergraduate program at Chicago, ...

University of Chicago
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

University of Chicago at Chicago; coeducational; inc. 1890, opened 1892 primarily through the gifts of John D. Rockefeller. Because of the progressive programs and distinguished faculty established under its first president, William R. Harper (1891-1906), the Univ. of Chicago immediately ...

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$100 Million Here, $100 Million There...

U Chicago Receives $100 Mil Gift

Marquette Snags $51 Mil Gift

$100 million? Purdue, for one, will take it.

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