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Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital received a $28 million donation last week from the Russell Berrie Foundation for diabetes research.

Teachers College received its largest gift yet of $20 million last week, earmarked for private school leadership programs. According to a TC press release, trustee John Klingenstein and his wife Pat donated the money in support of the 30-year-old Klingenstein Center for Independent School Education.

In one of the largest endowments for faculty development in Columbia’s history, the Mailman School of Public Health announced Friday that it has received $20.7 million from the estate of alumnus Ronald H. Lauterstein, MS ’58.