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Citadel founder Ken Griffin recently pledged a record-breaking $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University – a gift that comfortably surpasses previous landmark contributions by billionaire philanthropists such as Michael and Susan Dell, Gordon and Betty Moore foundation (by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Griffin’s $3 billion commitment allocates $2 billion to construct a new 35-acre interdisciplinary university campus in Miami. The remaining $1 billion will be divided between Carnegie Mellon’s renowned School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh and other university-wide strategic initiatives. Moore , donated $600 million to the California Institute of Technology for foundational scientific research and technological engineering.
Moore), Michael Bloomberg, John Doerr, and Phil and Penny Knight. Gordon and Betty Moore, American foundation established by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore and his wife Betty I.
Griffin’s decision to plant a Carnegie Mellon outpost in South Florida accelerates a regional transformation he helped trigger in 2022, when he relocated Citadel’s corporate headquarters from Chicago to Miami. The planned 35-acre Miami campus deepens an existing operational relationship between Citadel and Carnegie Mellon, with the hedge fund long relying on the university’s technical programs as a primary recruiting pipeline for elite software engineering and quantitative talent.