Gates Foundation offers Wa. school &#36;105M
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $105 million to the University of Washington to open a new research center to assess the performance of global health programs.
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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA - "You can't go wrong in computer science," Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told University of California, Berkeley students on Friday. Some students, however, were unhappy with the way Gates responded to questions about increasing competition for jobs from China and India.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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By Anonymous  CAMDEN Camden County College has received a five-year $477,879 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Scholars Program to benefit minorities and low-income students.
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By Tara M. Manthey, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 23--Erica Palmer imagined she was making a presentation to her grandmother, not the governor.   The sixth-grader held that picture in her head as she explained Spanaway Elementary School's gardening project to Gov.
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Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates contributed $400,000 to the campaign backing a California ballot measure that would make billions of dollars available for human embryonic
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Thirty-three years after dropping out of Harvard to start Microsoft, Chairman Bill Gates returned to the Cambridge, Mass., campus to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree and called on graduates to fight global poverty and disease.
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Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company&#39;s high-tech take on an ancient Chinese remedy.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 15--The Qwest Foundation will give grants totaling $100,000 to 28 teachers across Colorado to boost technology in the classroom, Qwest announced Thursday.
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A $1.2 million federal grant will help students in the Washington Elementary School District shape up. The Phoenix district has received the 2004 Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant from the US
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has given Carnegie Mellon University $20 million toward construction of a new computer science building.
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Although Bill Gates&#039; massive philanthropic foundation tends to get the most attention for its efforts to transform education, the company he co-founded also is paying close attention to the world of academia.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced Friday at the World Economic Forum that his foundation would give $306 million to use green technology and farming techniques to boost millions out of hunger and poverty.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP _ Efforts to try to develop an ancient Chinese remedy to help treat malaria in Third World countries will get a big boost today by an expected donation of millions of dollars from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates has contributed $400,000 to the campaign to support a California initiative that would provide the state with nearly $3 billion in funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports (Elias, AP
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Students from around the world pitched Bill Gates as part of a worldwide software development challenge.
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Wanting to maintain a role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen elite schools have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle has donated $43 million dollars grant dollars to Institute for OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company, to aid in the development of cheaper malaria treatment.