Princeton U. Receives $30-Million Gift

Two brothers have made a $30-million gift to Princeton University to establish a center devoted to neuroscience, reports The Star-Ledger.

The gift by James S. McDonnell III and John F. McDonnell, along with their late father’s charitable foundation, will create the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience.

James S. McDonnell graduated from Princeton in 1921 and formed McDonnell Aircraft, which later became the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. The company was an early pioneer in the aerospace industry and merged with Boeing in the late 1990s.

Both brothers are Princeton alumni. James McDonnell is a member of the university’s class of 1958, while his brother John graduated in 1960. Both men worked for McDonnell Douglas.