Recent Gifts & Grants

RECENT GIFTS
Scott and Jody Burnham donated $100,000 toward the USC Molecular & Computational Biology Building

Grant and Jill Wiese donated $100,000 toward the USC Molecular & Computational Biology Building

Nicholas and Patricia Marsch donated $100,000 to support the College’s life sciences initiative

Dr. David Lee and Miki Nam donated $100,000 to the Korean Studies Institute

Southern California Gas donated $50,000 for the next five years to underwrite the College’s annual scholarship luncheon

Orange County Trojan League donated $26,500 to support College priorities

Robert and Karen Kushner donated $25,000 to create a scholarship

RECENT GRANTS
Oscar Aparicio, biological sciences, received $1,462,500 from the National Institutes of Health/the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project “Chromatin and Cell Cycle Regulation of ORC Function”

Sarah Bottjer, biological sciences, received $665,439 from the National Institutes of Health/the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for the project “Developmental Changes in Neural Circuits for a Behavior”

Larry Pryor and Gordon Berger, East Asian Studies Center, received $585,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for the project “An English-Language Web Site on Developments in Japan in Online Journalism and Information/Communications Technologies”

Maxim Olshanii, physics, received $449,694 from the Office of Naval Research for the project “Coherence Properties of Strongly Interacting Atomic Vapors in Waveguides”

Jed Fuhrman, biological sciences, received $402,139 from the National Science Foundation for the project “Viruses in Marine Food Webs”