May 18, 2024

Education/Research

$5-Million Gift

David Villano | 12/1/2006

Mary Doyle and Otis Brown, co-directors of UM's ecosystem science center.

The University of Miami has received a $5-million gift from City National Bank of Florida Chairman Leonard Abess to fund the university's Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.

The 4-year-old center facilitates research on environmental issues by bringing together faculty from schools and departments throughout the university with outside scientists, policy-makers, planners and managers.

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