The Kavli Foundation, which established and endowed KIBM in 2004 with an initial $13.5 million, now brings an additional $5 million to UC San Diego, matching the gifts of generous donors including Joan and Irwin Jacobs; William and Marisa Rastetter; Sandra Timmons ’81 and Rick Sandstrom ’72, Ph.D. ’78; and an anonymous donor.
Gifts from donors included:
- An anonymous gift established the Jeff Elman Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Cognitive Science in honor of the late former dean of the School of Social Sciences and founding co-director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.
- UC San Diego alumni Sandra Timmons and Rick Sandstrom established the Kavli and Sandstrom-Timmons Human Brain Development Endowed Research Fund, in addition to the Kavli and Sandstrom-Timmons Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Human Brain Development.
- Joan and Irwin Jacobs established two faculty fellowships&mmash;the Joan and Irwin Jacobs and Kavli Foundation Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Engineering the Brain and the Mind I and II.
- William and Marisa Rastetter created the Kavli and Dr. William and Marisa Rastetter Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Neurobiology.
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