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...gift trumps the $100 million donated by longtime Harvard benefactor David Rockefeller ’36 in April to support international programs and the expansion of arts education, a priority of University President Drew G. Faust. Wyss' newest donation also brings his total philanthropy to Harvard to at least $150 million, as he gave $25 million in 2004 to support the Business School's doctoral programs...
...interviews, Harvard administrators hailed the gift for its ability to strengthen the University's nascent efforts in engineering...
...Harvard administrator accidentally shared news of the gift with Crimson reporters in a regularly scheduled interview last month, but University administrators asked Crimson editors to hold off on publishing news of the donation because the terms of the gift's announcement had not yet been finalized...
...Flier said that the Wyss gift would fuel a serious piece of bioengineering activity at the Harvard, but that the gift by itself would not fulfill the University’s aspirations in developing bioengineering...
...gift would hopefully put a stake in the ground,” Flier said, adding that the Medical School is also ready to contribute financially to the institute. “But coming as it is with certain, specific intentions of the donor, it does not fully do what I believe the University will want to do in the broad area of bioengineering...