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A New York real estate magnate has given the University of Michigan &#36;100 million, its largest donation ever, and the university's board voted on Thursday to rename the business school for him.
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The state is providing $200,000 in grants to help eight communities and nonprofit organizations restore damaged wetlands, Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles announced this week.  Plymouth and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research are among the recipients.
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Two students at the Durham, NC, School of Science and Mathematics will split US$100,000 in scholarship money for their cancer research.
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Brown University has received a &#36;100 million gift for its financial aid program, prompting a restructuring of how the university awards aid to its students.
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The University of Michigan Health System has received a $44 million donation to build and staff a research center that will take a new approach to finding a cure for juvenile diabetes.
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Students looking to get involved in fund-raisers that benefit the cure for cancer research can join the cause, as spectators or as participants in athletic events for October&#39;s National Breast Cancer Awareness month.
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Thousands of adults with leukemia who can&#39;t find bone marrow donors could benefit from transplants of stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
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Massachusetts awarded the first loan from its newly created $25 million emerging technology fund to help Acusphere, a Watertown-based biotech company, renovate a Tewksbury building as a manufacturing facility. The granting of the $2 million loan brought Senate President Robert Travaglini, a Boston Democrat, back together with former House Speaker Thomas Finneran, who recently took a job as president of ...
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The trustees of the Springvale Public Library are seeking support for Future Access, a technology sponsorship program.  Local businesses and organizations may subscribe to support a public computer station for a four-year cycle and will be recognized for their donations.
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Sometimes, it's the donor who lets the school down rather than the other way around. Schools have chipped donors' names off buildings after a conviction or a scandal. This summer, Roger Williams University in Rhode Island renamed its law school, dropping a donor's name after he made a racist comm...
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The University of Michigan received the biggest gift in its history today, a $100 million check from a New York real estate tycoon to go toward the university&#39;s business school.
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The state's bid for leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology got a boost yesterday when the National Science Foundation awarded a $12.4 million five-year grant to a consortium, led by Northeastern University, to create an engineering center to develop tools and processes for building nanoscale devices.
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Disappointment? Yes. Anger? No. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford said that was his reaction when he learned his alma mater, the University of Kentucky, had invoked a $50,000 buyout of its Nov. 24 nonconference game against the Minutemen at TD Banknorth Garden.
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A 17-year-old from Mendota Heights, Minn., has been turning heads with her unconventional umbilical cord stem cell research. On Wednesday, Nicole Ali was in the nation&#39;s capital, accepting a $50,000 scholarship for her work.