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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Retired clarinetist Edward Avedisian has donated $100 million to the Boston University medical school, the university announced Thursday. Avedisian, a BU alumnus, spent nearly four decades playing clarinet with the Boston Pops and Boston Ballet Orchestra while amassing a fortune in personal investments on the side, according to BU.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The overhaul was made possible in part by an anonymous $8 million donation, the largest ever received by the independent college. The law school offered a handful of master’s degrees, including the standard master of laws (L.L.M.), even before it added the “G” to its acronym.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It is the largest single gift in the university’s history and builds upon a $100 million donation Sanford made in 2013. Denny Sanford has committed $150 million to the University of California, San Diego, to fund a new stem cell research institute.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

million in-kind donation to help carry out its open-source lifestyle medicine curriculum in all interested medical schools. The University of South Carolina School of Medicine at Greenville will make a $4.8

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The grants are supported by the Fetzer Institute, an organization that aims to “build a spiritual foundation for a loving world,” and Stand Together Trust, an outgrowth of the Charles Koch Institute, whose billionaire namesake has historically donated to conservative causes.

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