Big Gifts Made to Two Universities

Two universities have announced large gifts — but have not disclosed how much has been donated.

• The president of the United Arab Emirates has made a “transformational” gift to Johns Hopkins Medicine, reports The Sun, in Baltimore.

• The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business received a multimillion-dollar gift from Charles M. Harper, retired leader of food companies ConAgra and RJR Nabisco, reports The Chicago Tribune.

The gift to Hopkins from Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s will support heart research, an AIDS-research program in Uganda, and a billion-dollar expansion project for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. One 355-bed building will be named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the donor’s late father.

In Chicago, the university will rename a business-school building after Mr. Harper.

Calling the donations one of its largest cash gifts, the business school would only hint at the amount, saying that “previous large gifts to the school include $25-million from Dennis Keller, chairman of DeVry Inc. . . . and $20-million, from Robert Rothman, chairman and chief executive of Florida Bank Group.”

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