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WVU Bucks for Brains donations exceed $900,000
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Donations to various research projects at West Virginia University are creeping up on $1 million.
WVU officials say they’ve had donations totaling $918,453 under the state’s Bucks for Brains program.
The Board of Governors on Friday approved plans to seek a matching amount from the state’s Research Trust Fund.
The Bucks for Brains initiative was approved last year by the Legislature.
It set aside $15 million to support research at Marshall University and $35 million for WVU. Each school has five years to raise matching funds.
WVU’s largest gifts were $630,000 for the Osborne Professorship in Hematological Malignancy Research and $168,000 for the James H. Walker Chair of Pediatric Cardiology.
