イェール大学 5000万ドルの寄付
イェール大学は、
同大大学院を卒業した中国人投資家のレイ・チャン氏から888万8888ドル（約8億2000万円）の寄付を受けたと発表しています。
（Yale University／2010.01.04）（一部抜粋）Yale SOM Announces Largest Alumni Gift to Date
New Haven, Conn. -- Yale President Richard C. Levin PhD '74 announced on January 4, 2010, that Lei Zhang MBA '02, GRD '02 has pledged the largest gift ever to the Yale School of Management by a graduate of the school. Zhang's pledge, made less than 10 years after his graduation from Yale, also represents the largest gift to date from a young Yale University alumnus. Zhang, the founder and managing partner of Hillhouse Capital Management, will give $8,888,888 primarily to help build Yale SOM's new campus. A portion of the gift will provide scholarship support for Chinese students in the International Relations Program at Yale's new Jackson Institute of Global Affairs. Other funds will be used to support a variety of China-related activities at the university, such as work undertaken in cooperation with China's Ministry of Education to train Chinese university presidents....(略)...
