A Webster man is celebrating 48 years with a kidney transplanted from his mother Betty in March 1978 when he was 16. The kidney, which would be turning 100 this year, is the longest-surviving transplant in Strong Hospital's history, defying the typical 15-20 year lifespan for living donor kidneys.
Billionaire Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University—$1 billion for its Pittsburgh computer science program and $2 billion to establish a new Miami campus in Wynwood. The 35-acre campus, set to open in 2028, will enroll over 3,500 students and focus on research in healthcare, national security, energy, and artificial intelligence.
Carnegie Mellon University received a $3 billion donation from Citadel founder Ken Griffin, the largest individual gift in higher education history. The funds will support a new 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood expected to enroll 3,500 students by 2028, plus enhancements to Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus including a computer science school named after Griffin.
NVIDIA donated $12,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation to support Perl 5 core maintenance and critical infrastructure. The announcement highlights several Perl community members working on AI-related projects, including Jesse Vincent's Superpowers methodology, Ovid's PAAD skills framework, and Getty's skilletor CLI and Langertha LLM interface.