Columbia Gets a $200-Million Donation, and So Does NYU

New York University and Columbia University both announced major gifts last week, each receiving $200-million.

At NYU the money will be used to create an institute on the ancient world, and at Columbia the funds will go toward a new center for the study of neuroscience.

The NYU donation is from the Leon Levy Foundation. Shelby White, a trustee of the foundation, and her husband, Leon Levy, who died in 2003, had been longtime benefactors of higher-education programs related to

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