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n William Bygrave has received the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Distinguished Entrepre- neurship Educator Award. Bygrave is a professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. n Ruth King has received a 2008 Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship. King is an associate professor of information systems and operations manage- ment in the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. GIFTS AND DONATIONS n The University of Toronto in Canada has renamed its commerce program Rotman Commerce in response to a $2.5 million gift from Sandra and Joseph Rotman, part of an $18 mil- lion gift to the Rotman School of Management. n Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, has received several multimillion-dollar commit- ments to its capital campaign from members of the school's board of trustees and alumni. These include $10 million from Scott Walker, $5 million from Barbara and Craig Barrett, $4 million from Jerry and Rachele Nichols, $3.5 million from Ken Seward, and $2.6 million from a family foundation created by David and Joan Lincoln and their family. n Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey, recent- ly has received two substantial gifts. Energy company PSEG has donated $2 million toward the building of a new state-of-the-art facility for the Newark campus. Financial services company Prudential has contrib- uted $5 million—$3 million for an endowed faculty chair and $2 mil- lion to support the creation of a center dedicated to business ethics and leadership in the business, non- profit, and philanthropic arenas. n Donations of $3 million by two investment groups have enabled the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, to create the EnCap Investments & LCM Group Alternative Asset Man- agement Center. COLLABORATIONS n INSEAD and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have renewed their partnership for four more years. Launched in 2001, the alliance delivers business education in four locations: Wharton's U.S. campuses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California, and INSEAD's campuses in Fontaine- bleau, France, and Singapore. n The College of Business Adminis- tration at San Diego State University in California will collaborate with the University of Malta in Valetta to offer new collaborative graduate degrees in marketing and integrated market- ing communications. The one-year program, which begins this fall, offers two graduate degrees: a mas- ter of science in business administra- tion/marketing from SDSU and a master of arts in integrated market- ing communications from UM. All classes will be taught in Malta, with approximately half the classes taught by SDSU faculty members. n The Rotterdam School of Manage- ment at Erasmus University in the Nether- lands has become the first institution in the Benelux region to be named Program Partner with the CFA Insti- tute, the global association for invest- ment professionals. n HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management has become the sixth member of the European consor- tium to offer the Euro*MBA, a pro- gram based on e-learning. n Grenoble Ecole de Management in France and French design school Strate Collège Designers have signed a partnership consisting of student and faculty exchanges, a double- degree accord, and joint executive education training. n The College of Business Administration at San Diego State University and Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloom- ington are collaborating on programs and resources aimed at professionals working in life sciences fields. This fall, SDSU will launch a 20-month MBA for Executives in Life Sciences, which will focus on bringing life science products from concept to market. SDSU is offer- ing the program in partnership with Kelley Executive Partners, which has designed an executive certificate program in life sciences. Kelley's cer- tificate program will allow working professionals—including engineers, researchers, scientists, and product managers—to learn the business side of the life sciences industry. n Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, has announced BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2008 13