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STATE UNIVERSITIES

MSU receives $3 million for athletics

Michigan State University alumni Peter and Joan Secchia have made a $3 million gift to MSU athletics. The gift will be directed towards the endowment of the defensive coordinator position with the MSU football team, and capital improvements for the MSU men’s basketball program. This leadership gift is in support of MSU’s new $1.5 billion capital campaign, called “Empower Extraordinary – the Campaign for Michigan State.”

Michigan Tech granted $100,000 from General Motors

The General Motors Foundation has granted Michigan Technological University $100,000 through the GM University/Organization Partner Program. The gift will support a variety of student activities, including diversity initiatives and Michigan Tech’s advanced hybrid electric vehicle. GM’s Partner Program aims to strengthen higher education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and other fields important to the automotive industry, with a goal of preparing more students to graduate with related degrees.

WMU awarded $3.7M for programs on blindness, low vision

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded four grants totaling $3.7 million to the Western Michigan University Department of Blindness and Low Vision Studies, to help fill a severe shortage of specialists in the field. The grants will help prepare orientation and mobility specialists, vision rehabilitation therapists, rehabilitation counselors and teachers of children who are visually impaired.

PEER INSTITUTIONS

UChicago public policy to receive $32.5M from two trustees

University of Chicago Trustee Dennis J. Keller, the co-founder of DeVry Education Group, has committed $20 million to the UChicago Harris School of Public Policy, the largest gift in the school’s history. A new building will be named the Keller Center in honor of Keller’s gift. UChicago Trustee King Harris, chairman of Harris Holdings Inc. and board chair of AptarGroup Inc., will give $12.5 million to the school.

UCLA engineering receives $9 million

UCLA engineering alumnus B. John Garrick and his wife, Amelia Garrick, have committed $9 million to launch the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Garrick Institute will improve preparation and response to threats including earthquakes, shifts caused by climate change and the consequences associated with major accidents at industrial plants.

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