Notable Donations to UCLA

The print edition of the LA Business Journal for this week has a listing of major charitable donations in LA County. Several are listed for UCLA:

$13 million from Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing to digitize library holdings from the 20th and 21st centuries and make them available online.

$10 million from Bronwyn Bateman to establish a center for ocular genetics at the Stein Eye Institute.

$5 million from Herb Alpert to upgrade technology and practice rooms at the Herb Alpert School of Music.

$1.5 million from Linda and Richard Turco to the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability to endow student aid, support an annual lecture, and provide other benefits to students.

$1.2 million from Alice and George Kachigian to the Dept. of Near Eastern Languages to support Armenian studies.

$1 million from Shirley and Ralph Shapiro to the Herb Alpert School of Music to support a chair in piano studies.

$1 million from Ann Daly and John Gustafson to support a basic needs center for students.

In addition, the Journal reports a $15 million gift by Renee and Meyer Luskin to the Orthopaedic Institute for Children - which is in alliance with UCLA Health. The Institute has been renamed after the Luskins.