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Billionaire Dave Duffield Pledges Record $372 Million to Cornell
Students walk through the Arts Quad at the Cornell University campus in Ithaca.
Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergBillionaire David Duffield pledged $371.5 million to his alma mater Cornell University in the largest single gift in school history, the university announced Thursday.
The donation is on top of a $100 million gift last year to expand the existing Duffield Hall at the engineering college. Duffield, who graduated from Cornell in 1962 and attended business school there, has given more than a half-billion dollars to the university.