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Environment Institute to Get $30-Million Gift

IN BRIEF The State / PALO ALTO

February 15, 2006|From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Ward W. Woods, a Stanford University trustee, and his wife, Priscilla, will give $30 million to Stanford's 2-year-old institute for the environment, university officials said Tuesday.

The gift will allow the institute to launch programs and collaborative research in such areas as global food security, energy efficiency and climate change. The institute will be renamed in the couple's honor.


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Ward Woods, retired president of the investment firm Bessemer Securities, and his wife, a clinical social worker, are longtime Stanford supporters.

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