Stanford gets &#36;33 million donation
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The founder of Business Wire, an electronic distributor of news releases, donated $33 million to help Stanford University build a stem cell research center, the school announced Tuesday.
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The international donors from 55 international organization and countries have gathered for two-days meeting in Tokyo. Approximately $14 billion were promised by foreign givers in last yearâs gathering in Madrid.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology's endowment fund posted investment gains of 22.1 percent in the year ended June 30, the school said yesterday, helping the endowment to grow $1.6 billion to $9.98 billion.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (Sports Network) - J.J. Arrington rushed  for 169 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries to lead No. 4  California to a convincing 41-6 win over Stanford in The Big  Game at Memorial Stadium.
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Candice Wiggins scored 14 points as Stanford opened the second half with a 22-point run and the eighth-ranked Cardinal beat UC Santa Barbara 84-59 Thursday night.
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A project to build a digital camera of cosmic dimensions on a mountaintop in Chile has received a $30 million boost from a pair of software moguls and philanthropists.
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Brooke Smith scored 14 of her 21 points in the first half, and No. 6 Stanford beat rival California for the ninth straight time, 88-53 on Thursday night.
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Long Beach -- Stanford will make its third appearance in the NCAA women&#39;s volleyball final in four years after defeating Pacific-10 Conference&#39;s champion Washington 3-1 Thursday night.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. The founder of an information technology company in Virginia and his diabetic wife are giving 44 (m) million dollars to the University of Michigan for creation of a Type one diabetes research center.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman Charles Munger and his wife Nancy Munger on Thursday donated $43.5 million to Stanford University and its law school.
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The NFL and its teams, players and fans have raised and committed more than &#36;4 million for tsunami relief efforts, including &#36;1 million coming directly from the league and &#36;1.5 million from Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allan's charitable foundation.
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ST JOHN'S, Antigua  - Texas billionaire Allen Stanford has given West Indies cricket US$100 million over three years in what he described on Wednesday as a bid to bring the game into the 21st century.
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Harvard University, already America's   richest university, on Tuesday said its endowment swelled to   nearly $30 billion as a new investment chief extended a long   run of beating its benchmark.
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John Kerry is giving &#36;250,000 to support Democrats in disputed elections in Washington state and Louisiana and forming a new fund that could help his future political ambitions.
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Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fund-raising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from 2005.
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BERKELEY, Calif. (Sports Network) - JJ Arrington rushed for 169 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries to lead No. 4 California to a convincing 41-6 win over Stanford in The Big Game at Memorial Stadium.
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Swiss drug giant Novartis SA said yesterday it is spending $4 million to fund scientists performing diabetes research at Harvard University, the Massachusetts