Recently, Columbia University has received a $200 million dollar donation from Dawn M. Greene, the wife of N.Y lawyer Jerome L. Greene. This money was donated in order to finance a new science center at the University, which will be named after the lawyer: The Jerome L. Greene Science Center. Mr. Greene is an almunus of Columbia University, having graduated in 1926 from Columbia College and in 1928 from the Law School.
"The gift, the largest private donation to a United States institution for the creation of a single facility, will fund the science center, which will be led by three Columbia professors, all of them neurobiologists, according to a Columbia statement."
This center will be mainly used for the studying of genetics, behavior, and the function of the brain.

Throughout the Gilded Age, the so called Rober Barons, otherwise known as Captains of Industry, contributed a lot to education. Among these was John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil industry. Rockefeller is widely known as a philanthropist. He gave $80 million to the University of Chicago, which was then turned into a "world class institution by 1900." Rockefeller also made numerous donations to his church and to health sciences, which led to the foundation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1901 located in N.Y. City. In 1965, its name was changed to Rockefeller University.