Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Wins $20 Million; UCLA and U. of Michigan Land Large Gifts

A roundup of notable gifts compiled by the Chronicle.

University of Michigan

Richard and Susan Rogel pledged $110 million to the institution’s cancer center, which will be named for them.

Richard Rogel is president of the investment firm Tomay, and he founded Preferred Provider Organization of Michigan, a health-insurance plan. The two are long-time donors to the university, Richard Rogel’s alma mater, and have served on a number of boards there.

Their latest donation will back efforts aimed at furthering cancer research and treatment and includes support for scholarships, professorships, and other programs.

University of California at Los Angeles

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld committed $20 million to UCLA Health Sciences to create Eugene & Maxine Rosenfeld Hall, a new home for mock clinical programs, surgical and procedural simulation, and emergency and hospital team training.

Eugene Rosenfeld is a real-estate investor and developer and a UCLA alumnus. He and his wife have been giving to the university for many years. Their gifts include support for more than 270 scholarships for students with disabilities and those with financial needs.

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University

Tad and Dianne Taube have pledged $20 million for a new building that will house updated operating rooms, imaging suites, and intensive care units in a child-friendly environment.

Tad Taube founded the Woodmont Companies, a real estate investment and management firm. The couple previously provided $15 million to children’s health programs at Stanford.

Denison University

Robert (Bob) O’Donnell and his wife, Sue Douthit O’Donnell, gave $5.7 million primarily to renovate the college’s William Howard Doane Library, and for a narrative nonfiction writing program. Sue Douthit O’Donnell graduated from Denison in 1967.

Bob O’Donnell retired in 2011 from his position as a senior vice president and director of Capital Research and Management Company, and investment firm. He has taught investment strategy at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley.

University of Central Florida

Jim and Julia Rosengren pledged $6.6 million to aid several university programs.

The money will endow a professorship in psychology at a university clinic dedicated to the study of anxiety, trauma, and post-traumatic stress disorder; and one in the College of Sciences. It will also support the university’s Marine Turtle Research Group; provide money for the Football Excellence Fund; and go toward the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures in the College of Arts & Humanities.

Jim Rosengren is a retired executive chairman of Heritage Health Solutions, a health care company. He graduated from the university in 1981.

California Institute of Technology

Eli and Edythe Broad committed $5 million through their foundation to endow a professorship, which will be named for a Nobel laureate, David Baltimore, who served as president of Caltech from 1997 through 2005.

Eli Broad is founding chairman of KB Home, a home builder, and of SunAmerica, a financial-services company. He has served on the university’s Board of Trustees since 1993.

The Broads appeared on the Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 50 list of the most generous donors every year from 2000 to 2014.

Arboretum at Penn State

Charles (Skip) Smith gave $4.5 million to build a new garden that will attract and sustain native pollinator species of birds and insects. Smith graduated from Penn State with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1948.

He helped lead his family’s H.O. Smith and Sons real-estate-development company, and he founded what became State College Audio-Visual Supply.

To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week.