March 9, 2007

A Gift Aimed at Good Health, but Also Good for Business

By ERIN STROUT

To Dennis Gillings and his wife, Joan, giving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the $50-million pledge that put the institution over its $2-billion fund-raising goal made good business sense.

The gift to the newly named Dennis and Joan Gillings School of Global Public Health will help create Innovation Laboratories, where faculty members from Chapel Hill, as well as researchers from the private sector, will be competitively selected to participate in efforts to solve the

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