James Simons donates $150M to Stony Brook

[Andy Nguyen]

James Simons, chairman of the famous quant hedge fund Ren Tech and a former chairman of math dept at Stony Brook, gave the university biggest donation in its history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/nyregion/stony-brook-university-given-150-million.html

 

[Aaron Wong]

Wow. I swear the last record was like $60 million or something also donated by him.