Columns:: Update: Private Giving

since 12/15/98

Columns::March 10, 2003

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Update: Private Giving

Private giving is an essential source of funding for student scholarships, faculty recruitment and support, research support, library enrichment and other vital academic enhancements. Columns periodically reports gifts to the university of $25,000 and above from private donors. Recent contributions include:

College Scientists Foundation, Inc., Atlanta $35,000 doctoral student support, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute

American Heart Association $65,000 Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases; genetics department

Margaret R. Bennett $18,125 special collections library building (installment on pledge)

Margaret R. Bennett $10,000 Libraries: Kell and Abbott collection

Timothy James Embry $100,000 Athletic Association

Flavor and Extract Manufacturing Assn. $25,000 Center for Applied Isotope Studies

James J. and Angelia Harris Foundation $500,000 Athletic Association; Georgia Educational Enhancement Fund

Cecil M. Phillips $1,000,000 George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy

Sartain Lanier Family Foundation, Inc. $40,000 Arts and Sciences

Jimmy and Barbara Turner $150,000 Jimmy and Barbara Turner Softball A.E.P. Scholarship

United States Golf Association $29,200 Savannah River Ecology Lab

Jane and Harry Willson $500,000 capital campaign

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