| 1. | U. of Utah | Jon and Karen Huntsman Foundation (Karen H. Huntsman) | Karen Huntsman is the widow of Jon M. Huntsman Sr., founder of the Huntsman Corporation, a chemicals manufacturer in Salt Lake City. He died in 2018. | $150 million (pledge) | support for the university’s psychiatric hospital, which will be renamed the Huntsman Mental Health Institute; mental-health screenings of university students and rural Utah residents; and research to identify risks and contributing factors to mental illness |
| 2. | U. of California at Berkeley, U. of California at San Francisco, and U. of Washington | Weill Family Foundation (Sanford and Joan Weill) | Sanford Weill is chairman emeritus of Citigroup. Joan Weill is a member of UCSF’s Board of Overseers. | $106 million | establishment, in San Francisco, of the Weill Neurohub, a collaboration among the three universities that will bring together researchers to develop new treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases |
| 3. | U. of Miami | Allan and Patti Herbert | The alumni couple, who co-own Miami Beach’s Richmond Hotel, met while students at the university in the 1950s. Allan Herbert was a group executive and insurance-company president at Teledyne, and Patti Herbert worked at the Grubb & Ellis commercial real-estate firm. | $89 million | support for the addition of several centers, including ones for sustainable business and for principled leadership and governance, at the business school, which will be renamed for the donors |
| 4. | North Dakota State U. | Robert and Sheila Challey | Robert Challey, a 1967 university alumnus, is president of the Park Place Group, a real-estate investment company in Walnut Creek, Calif. | $75 million (pledge) | support for the Division of Performing Arts, the Challey School of Music, and the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, along with scholarships, faculty positions, and new programs |
| 5. | Indiana U. at Bloomington | Fred Luddy | Luddy, who started studying at Bloomington in 1973, founded ServiceNow, a Silicon Valley company that provides a cloud-based platform to streamline handling of IT help-desk service requests. | $60 million | support for scholarships, endowed professorships, and the construction of a building that will house the new Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence, a multidisciplinary program in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering whose first research program will focus on artificial-intelligence approaches to digital health care |
| 6. | Pepperdine U. School of Law | Caruso Family Foundation (Rick and Tina Caruso) | Rick Caruso, who earned a degree from the law school in 1983, was a real-estate lawyer. He founded Caruso, a Los Angeles commercial real-estate firm. | $50 million (pledge) | expansion of educational opportunities for underserved students and support for academic programs in the law school, which will be renamed the Rick J. Caruso School of Law |
| 6. | Southern Methodist U. | David B. and Carolyn L. Miller | David Miller, who earned degrees at Southern Methodist in 1972 and 1973, is a co-founder and managing partner of EnCap Investments, a private-equity firm in Houston and Dallas. Carolyn Miller was a teacher and social worker who served as a program director at the Senior Source, a Dallas nonprofit that helps older people. | $50 million (pledge) | support for scholarships, modernization of the curriculum, improvement of facilities, and development of corporate partnerships at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business |
| 8. | Illinois Institute of Technology | Michael P. and Elizabeth Galvin | Michael Galvin, a 1978 law-school graduate of the university and chairman of its Board of Trustees, is president of Galvin Enterprises, where he manages a venture-capital portfolio of investments in biotechnology, real-estate development, and business services. | $40 million | support for scholarships and new building projects |
| 9. | U. of Texas at Austin | Lorraine (Casey) Stengl | Stengl, who earned degrees in chemistry and education at the university in 1939, was a family physician in El Campo, Tex. She invested in real estate and the stock market and donated much of her wealth to the university. She died in 2018 at age 99. | $38.6 million (bequest) | expansion of the Stengl-Wyer Endowment in the College of Natural Sciences, which will support research at the Stengl Lost Pines Biological Station and other research in the department of integrative biology and life sciences, as well as new fellowships |
| 10. | U. of California at Berkeley | Terry and Tori Rosen | Terry Rosen, who earned his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1985, is chief executive of Arcus Biosciences, in Hayward, Calif. | $25 million | support for a new building in the College of Chemistry that will be named in honor of Clayton Heathcock, a former chemistry dean who was Terry Rosen’s mentor at the university |
| 10. | U. of Virginia | Gregory Olsen | Olsen, who earned a Ph.D. at UVa in 1971, is an inventor who holds 12 patents and is president of GHO Ventures, an investment firm in Princeton, N.J. He co-founded Sensors Unlimited, a near-infrared camera manufacturing company that sold for $600 million in 2000. | $25 million (pledge) | money to create professorships and fellowships for Ph.D. students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with a portion set aside for the department of materials science and engineering, and to support other programs chosen by the dean of engineering and the chair of that department |
| 12. | Harvard U. | K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan | Tan, who earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, is chief executive of Broadcom, a global infrastructure technology company. Yang is a former investment banker. Two of the couple’s three children, now adults, are on the autism spectrum. | $20 million | establishment at Harvard Medical School of the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research, which will focus on trying to identify the biological roots and molecular changes that give rise to autism and related disorders, in the hope of developing better diagnostic tools and new therapies |
| 12. | Illinois Institute of Technology | Craig J. and Janet Duchossois | Craig Duchossois is chairman of the family’s Duchossois Group, a holding company with investments in access-control products like garage-door openers and a private-investment firm. | $20 million | support for scholarships and new building projects |
| 12. | Illinois Institute of Technology | John W. and Jeanne Rowe | John Rowe is a chairman emeritus of Exelon Corporation, an electric-utility company headquartered in Chicago. | $20 million | support for scholarships and new building projects |
| 12. | U. of Kentucky | J. David and Dianne Rosenberg | David Rosenberg, a 1973 university law-school graduate, is a senior partner in the Cincinnati law firm of Keating, Muething & Klekamp. | $20 million | endowment for merit scholarships and money to recruit and retain faculty and support programs in the College of Law, whose name could be changed to the J. David Rosenberg College of Law |
| 16. | Michigan State U. | Meijer Foundation (Doug Meijer) | Doug Meijer is a former co-chairman of the Meijer supermarket chain based in Michigan, which his family founded in 1934. | $19.5 million | establishment in the College of Human Medicine of a theranostics clinic for cancer therapy, to be housed in a new structure to be named the Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building |
| 17. | Carnegie Mellon U. | William and Nancy Strecker | William Strecker, who earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the university’s electrical-engineering program between 1966 and 1971, was senior vice president for engineering and chief technology officer at the Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds 16 patents for his engineering designs. | $15 million | endowment for the dean’s chair in the College of Engineering, which will provide support for education and research programs across its seven departments, and at the university’s institutes and programs in Africa and Silicon Valley |
