New Jersey's legislature approved $2 million to establish a center at Rutgers University.
RITCHIE PATTERSON: CLASSE is a center at Cornell that does a wide range of research.
An earlier version of this article misstated part of the name of a center at Brookings Institution.
University of Florida students asked Gainesville officials to add a center at the student union on campus.
Diop, 18, a native of Senegal who was a center at Virginia's Oak Hill Academy, was the eighth overall pick.
He also endowed a center at the Mayo Clinic, known as the Miles and Shirley Fiterman Center for Digestive Diseases.
In the final weeks of his life, he provided seed money to establish a center at Refugees International to assist people displaced by global climate change.
Willis Reed was small for a center (at 6-foot-9!), but had a keen passing eye and an outside shooting touch most big men lacked.
"It took the agent multiple times to scan my prints" during enrollment at a center at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, reported Richard J. Harrison.
She started a center at Stanford to connect academics and nonprofits, and this fall published a book, "Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World".
Dr. Rowland founded a center at Columbia for research and treatment of A.L.S. and helped to found a center for muscular dystrophy.
