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Guv: Stony Brook $150M gift an investment

James and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation

James and Marilyn Simons and the Simons Foundation are donating $150 million to Stony Brook University -- the largest gift ever to any SUNY school -- to fund medical research, endow professors and recruit top undergraduate and graduate students. Videojournalist: Joseph D. Sullivan (Dec. 14, 2011) (December 14, 2011 5:47 PM)

James Simons said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had stepped up to the plate, so he would, too.

"He did his job and we did ours," he said.

The billionaire chairman of Renaissance Technologies formally announced at Stony Brook University Wednesday that he and his wife, Marilyn, and the Simons Foundation were making a $150-million gift -- the largest ever to a SUNY campus -- to fund medical research,...

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