The boards will help build the institutes, develop their strategic plans and goals, and spread the word about what the institutes are all about.
But his biggest step came when he started a parallel system for so-called modern education, soliciting contributions from Muslim business leaders to build vocational institutes and, later, certified colleges of medicine, engineering and pharmacy.
The main point of his donations to USC and UCLA is to build biomedical institutes that will act as bridges between industry and the ivory tower.Unfortunately, Mr Mann may find the exercise surprisingly frustrating.
"If Spain could build more institutes like CRG with the clear intent that you stay as long as you remain good in science," people might be attracted to this, he says.
He spent more than $6 million of his own money to build the institute, in addition to securing sponsors, officials at the institute said.
Mr. Codey said he expected a bill to provide $150 million to build the institute to pass by the end of the year, and he hoped its groundbreaking, which had originally been planned for August, could come next summer.
Bruce is also spearheading an initiative to build an institute for the study of mouse genetics on a very large scale.
Liu says one of his big achievements in Singapore was to build an institute from scratch with home-grown talent rather than relying heavily on "imports".
Kalu Yala's Jimmy Stice didn't set out to build an institute.
To build the institute, we began the process of creating a community of environmental scientists, social scientists, lawyers, policy and management analysts, health experts, and engineers who came to know each other and together engage in scholarship.
