Citadel's Griffin Gives $3 Billion to CMU for Miami Campus
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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is giving Carnegie Mellon University $3 billion, the largest single gift committed to a US university. $2 billion will be used to build a new campus in Miami, $1 billion will...
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is giving Carnegie Mellon University $3 billion, the largest single gift committed to a US university. $2 billion will be used to build a new campus in Miami, $1 billion will go to the main campus in Pittsburgh. Griffin and Carnegie Mellon President Farnam Jahanian speak to Bloomberg's Lisa Abramowicz in Pittsburgh. (Source: Bloomberg)
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