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Children’s Hospital Receives $25 Million, and Dartmouth Lands $20 Million for DEI in STEM Fields
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Richard Wood Jr. (left) gave $25 million to establish the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. At right is Scott Adzick, surgeon-in-chief and founder and director of the center.
A roundup of notable gifts compiled by the Chronicle:
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Richard Wood Jr. and his family gave $25 million to establish the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. The money will support a range of new clinical, educational, and research programs within the center and endow a chair in pediatric surgical science and fellowships in that field.
NH Business Review
‘Extraordinary’ donation to focus on ‘historically underrepresented students’
May 20, 2021
A $20 million gift from Dartmouth alumni Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe and her husband John Donohoe will be used to expand the college’s E.E. Just Program, named for a prominent African-American biologist who graduated from Dartmouth in 1907.
An alumni couple has given Dartmouth College $20 million to boost efforts to draw more under-represented groups to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to encourage more such faculty members early in their careers.
The gift is jump-starting a $60 million initiative to “to support diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM at Dartmouth through faculty diversity, student support, and community building efforts,” Dartmouth said in a news release Sunday evening.
Dartmouth announces $20 million gift for diversity in STEM fields
Dartmouth College trustee Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe and her husband John Donahoe, the CEO of Nike and a former Dartmouth trustee, have given 20 million to the college to draw more underrepresented groups to STEM fields. (Courtesy photograph)
Published: 5/17/2021 5:06:02 PM
HANOVER Dartmouth College on Sunday said an alumni couple has given the college $20 million to boost efforts to draw more underrepresented groups to the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and to encourage more such faculty members early in their careers.
The gift from a Dartmouth trustee who has been active in human rights and her husband, one of the highest-paid CEOs in the country is jump-starting a $60 million initiative to “to support diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM at Dartmouth through faculty diversity, student support, and community building efforts,” Dartmouth said in a news release Sunday eve