Gerhard R. Andlinger, an investment manager, has pledged $100-million to Princeton University, in large part to stimulate research and education on efforts to prevent global warming.

Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science plans to use $70-million of the gift to create a center for the study of energy and the environment. The remainder will go toward engineering-research laboratories, hiring four new faculty members, and an endowment to finance research in areas too new to qualify for federal support.

A portion of the money will also support a program to bring industry experts, policy makers, scientists, engineers, and scholars together to study and work on energy and environmental issues.

Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton’s president, said the university hoped the new center would enable researchers to use their discoveries to help scientists and engineers create better ways to manage carbon-dioxide emissions and create new types of alternative energies.

“We also hope to educate the next generation of scientists, engineers, and policy makers, who will take out of Princeton a deep sensitivity to global warming, and educate citizens,” said Ms. Tilghman.

Mr. Andlinger, who is 77 and a Princeton graduate, is the founder and chairman of Andlinger & Company, an international investment and management firm in Tarrytown, N.Y. He was born in Austria and came to the United States in 1948, when he won an essay-writing contest sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune. He has previously donated $27-million to the university. —Maria Di Mento

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