$100 Million Pledged to Cornell Medical School
<i> Reuters</i>
NEW YORK — New York’s Cornell University received its largest gift Thursday, a $100-million personal commitment to medical research from Joan and Sanford Weill.
Weill heads a financial services company now involved in the biggest merger in U.S. corporate history.
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings said in his announcement at the medical college in Manhattan that the gift would support research in structural biology, genetic medicine and neuroscience.
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