Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezos Donate $15M To Princeton

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and wife MacKenzie Bezos have donated $15M to their alma mater, Princenton University, to create a new center focused on brain research. According to Princeton, the donation goes to create a center in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics. Jeff Bezos has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton, and graduated in 1986; MacKenzie Bezos was an English major who graduated from Princeton in 1992. Princeton said it expects the new center to open in the summer of 2013. (Photo: Princeton University)