SAN DIEGO (AP) - An early Facebook employee has donated $75 million to the University of California San Diego.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/2ou3zzk ) that the university announced the donation by Taner Halicioglu (Haw-li-dji-o-loo) on Saturday. Officials say the gift is the largest the university has ever received from one of its graduates.
Halicioglu joined Facebook in 2004, the year it was founded, and was the company’s first full-time employee. He left Facebook in 2009 and returned to UC San Diego as a lecturer in computer science in 2013.
The $75 million donation will be used to train students and support faculty at the newly created Halicioglu Institute of Data Science, which will focus on cross-disciplinary studies involving computer science, cognitive science, math and other fields.
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Information from: The San Diego Union-Tribune, https://www.utsandiego.com
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