March 8, 2007

Yahoo Founder Donates $75-Million to Stanford U.; Other New Gifts

Eight institutions have received big gifts:

  • Jerry Yang, co-founder and a director of the Internet search engine Yahoo, in Sunnyvale, Calif., and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged $75-million to Stanford University, in California. The donors asked that $50-million be used build the Environment and Energy Building, which will house the Woods Institute for the Environment, the department of civil and environmental engineering, and several interdisciplinary

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