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Another third will endow the directorship of the Asia center, enhancing faculty research through discretionary funds. The remaining $5 million will create scholarships for undergraduates and graduates to study in China and the U.S. over the next five years...
...contribution will endow Fung scholars, a group of undergraduates who are selected through the international student office. They will have the opportunity to travel to China to study and participate in internships...
...guilty verdicts may be in against former Enron CEO and chairman Ken Lay, but he is still doing battle with, of all things, his alma mater. Seven years after making a $1.1 million gift to endow a chair in economics at the University of Missouri, Lay is now trying to have the money returned. Last September, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he personally sought to have the money - as yet unused - transferred back to Houston to assist 14 charities in relief efforts, including preacher-author Joel Osteen's megachurch. Five months later in February this year, the trustee...
...Riley says. Because of the current election process, members of the CLC tend to be more concerned with campus legislation than social life.To fix this, Riley sponsored a bill that passed earlier this month to create an independent social programming board. Beginning next semester, the College will endow the board with a $200,000 financial allocation, a four-fold increase over the UC’s typical events budget. According to an article in The Crimson, the new board will be responsible for planning five different social events: two outdoors events like Yardfest, a concert, and Harvard-Yale. The board?...
...Elizabeth's first and primary duty to her people, however, is to represent in her person all that they hold best in the British way of life, to endow the average Briton's life with a spaciousness beyond his own means. All last year, Britons were making plans and looking forward to Elizabeth's coronation like a family planning a favorite daughter's wedding (see ART). They mean it to be her TIME, JANUARY 5, 1953 party, but they mean it to be a family party as well. The common sense and kinship Elizabeth shares with...