<p>...the latest gift of gerhard andlinger '52. details here:</p>
<p>Four donors give more than $105 million to expand environmental focus at U.</p>
<p>Here is the Daily Princetonians take on these donations.</p>
<p>[Four</a> donors give more than $105 million to expand environmental focus at U. - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/07/02/21274/]Four”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/07/02/21274/)</p>
<p>The University announced four alumni donations for expanding environmental research this week, the largest of which is a $100 million gift from investment manager Gerhard Andlinger 52. These gifts are a part of the Universitys $1.75 billion Aspire Capital Campaign.</p>
<p>Andlingers gift, which will fund the Gerhard R. Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at the engineering school, is one of the biggest single alumni donations in the Universitys history. Only two donations a $l00 million donation from Gordon Wu 58 in 1996 and a $101 million donation from Peter Lewis 55 announced in 2006 have equaled or exceeded the size of the Andlinger donation, Director of Engineering Communications Steven Schultz said. Andlinger also donated $25 million in 2000 to establish the Andlinger Center for the Humanities.</p>
<p>My hope in establishing this center [for energy and the environment] is to bring those strengths together and focus them on finding cleantech solutions to the most important problems facing our society today, Andlinger said in a University statement. The work of the center will help create a better world for our children and grandchildren, which I see as a personal as well as institutional responsibility.</p>
<p>Horray! I’m so excited to hear about this! We desperately need the knowledge as well as the public will to transform the way we treat the environment. I’m glad Princeton take it’s part.</p>