Griffin donates $3 billion for Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami
Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel, is making a $3 billion donation to Carnegie Mellon University – the largest ever made in the US to a higher education institution. The university is in Pittsburgh, but the funds donated by Griffin will be used mostly to create a campus in Miami.
Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest ever given to a US university. The funds will mainly be used to create a new campus in Miami, which will have space for 3,500 students and focus on areas such as health, national security, and climate resilience. $1 billion will go to the computer science school, which will be renamed the Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science. Construction on the 35-acre campus in Wynwood is set to begin next year.
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