[pitdesi]

Always amazes me that there are people out there who have $265mil to give that you can barely find anything about on Google. (Bill likely has a lot more too, as he is expected to give a very large gift to the University of Pittsburgh).

More details on him here: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11250/1172681-455-0.stm

[testcock1]

What surprised me even more was that it was only the 14th largest donation in history made to higher education. Here's the list if anyone else was wondering: http://chronicle.com/stats/big_gifts.htm

[ehsanu1]

That list is slightly outdated, missing the $10b endowment for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (endowed by its namesake).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Abdullah_University_of_Sci...

[mahmud]

King Abdullah's is not a donation or an endowment. It's a drop in the bucket; the royal family giving to the people less than a fraction of one percent of what they looted from the country, and its wealth.

[bostonpete]

An endowment of a public university by a king seems like a far cry from a "private donation" (which that list presents) to me...

[threpinatoy]

Does a large endowment incentivize murder?

[sp332]

I'm sure the document has a clause which invalidates the donation if they murder him for the money.

[shoham]

The music school could really use the money! Hail to Pitt :)