Seeking to provide “tinkerers” with freedom to explore hunches and passions, businesswoman and philanthropist Lynn Shostack has given $10 million to permanently endow the Project X innovation fund in Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Princeton's class of 1976 celebrated its 35th reunion by naming a dormitory in Butler College. Class of 1976 Hall is the fifth dorm to be named in the complex, whose reconstruction completed the University's launch of its four-year residential college system.
Investment executive Mitch Julis, a member of Princeton’s class of 1977, has made a substantial gift to create the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
A gift from Anthony A. Yoseloff, a member of Princeton’s class of 1996, and his wife, Nanar, will name a dormitory in Butler College.
Real estate is a valuable asset, and if you have more than you need—an unused second home, an investment property, a house too big now that the kids are grown—making a gift of that real estate can be advantageous for both you and Princeton.
In the year since its formal launch at the University’s “Coming Back and Moving Forward” conference last October, the Connect initiative has made tremendous strides toward meeting its goals of raising $4 million and increasing participation by black alumni to 60% during the Aspire campaign.
Both the Schultz and Patterson families have found that charitable trusts created with Princeton have performed well through ups and downs of the market.
The Eisenhart name may be familiar to those who approach campus by the Graduate College and pass through the Luther P. Eisenhart Gateway on Springdale Road. Read about a century of Princeton connections for the Eisenhart family.
Henry R. Martin ’48, who spent more than 50 years creating drawings for The New Yorker and other magazines, has donated nearly 700 original drawings and a selection of humorous books he wrote and/or illustrated to the University Library.
The 2009-10 Annual Giving campaign raised $48,582,819 -- the third highest total in its history -- with 60.8 percent of undergraduate alumni participating.
