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headlines SHORT TAKES ■ Utah State University alumnus Jeffrey Clark and his wife, Bonnie, have provided a US$6 million leadership gift to help establish the Jeffrey D. Clark Center for Entrepreneurship in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at the campus in Logan. Jeffrey Clark is a hedge fund and asset manager. ■ Investment manager Richard A. Kayne and his wife, Suzanne, have donated US$5 million to establish the Ric and Suzanne Kayne Investment Management Specialization Program Fund at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California Los Angeles. The gift reinforces the school's efforts to be self-supporting. ■ The Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College in New York City has received a US$3 million gift from long- 16 January/February 2014 time professor of management Narendra Paul Loomba to support the school's department of management. The department is now the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management. ■ The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) has awarded US$508,795 to college and university student entrepreneurs and innovators, as well as faculty who are fostering innovation. The awards are part of the $1.5 million in grants that the NCIIA provides annually with support from The Lemelson Foundation. The student grants are part of the NCIIA's Entrepreneurial Team (E-Team) program, which provides early-stage funding of up to $75,000 for collegiate entrepreneurs. More information is available at www.nciia.org/ eteam_program. ■ London Business School has announced the launch of its first comprehensive fundraising campaign to raise £100 million (US$160 million) over the next five years. The school kicked off its campaign with the announcement of a $40 million gift from the Batia and Idan Ofer Family Foundation. FACILITIES ■ This fall, the School of Business at SUNY-University at Albany cut the ribbon on BizEd NEW CAMPUSES its new US$64 million building. The 96,000-square-foot building features technologically advanced classrooms; a trading room; expanded facilities for career services; and collaborative research centers. It was designed by Perkins+Will and is projected to receive LEED gold certification for its energyefficient design. ■ Last fall, St. John Fisher College of Rochester, New York, formally opened the Victor E. Salerno Center for American Enterprise, the new home for the college's School of Business. The 27,000-square-foot building features a mock trading room, large classrooms, and a computer lab. It was funded in part by a US$2 million gift from alum Salerno of O'Connell Electric. ■ The W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe has officially opened its 129,000-square-foot McCord Hall. The environmentally friendly new building features technologically advanced tiered and flat classrooms, a multipurpose event space, a graduatelevel career center, and a health-conscious café. ■ This fall Jiaotong-Liverpool University celebrated the launch of its International Business School Suzhou (IBSS). The university is an autonomous educational institution created in 2006 by Liverpool University of the U.K. and Xi'an Jiaotong University of China; it grants dual British and Chinese degrees. All IBSS programs will be taught in English and offer a Western approach to education as well as a high degree of engagement with Chinese business. The dean of the new school is Sarah Dixon, former dean of the Bradford School of Management in the U.K. The launch comes as the university invests 280 million RMB (about US$46 million) into constructing two new buildings to house IBSS. ■ Grenoble Ecole de Management in France is opening a new campus in Paris in January 2014, and Judith Bouvard, dean of Grenoble Graduate School of Busi- ness, will be the director. Among the new site's offerings are an MSc in fashion, design, and luxury manage- ALEXAN DE R SH I ROKOV/TH I N KSTOCK; LUCIANO MORTU LA/TH I N KSTOCK ■ New York University's Stern School of Business in New York City has established the William R. Berkley Scholarship Program to support seniors who want to pursue MBAs immediately after graduating from college. The program is named for insurance executive William Berkley, who donated US$10 million to create the program.