In 1959, Mr. Rosen and several friends from the institute bought a 40-acre vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, overlooking what later came to be known as Silicon Valley.
In addition to the land it turned over to the state, the institute buys easements that restrict development on much of the surrounding property.
Its most recent purchase came on June 17, when the institute bought 699 acres of meadows, hilltops and streams on the northern edge of Fahnestock for $1.8 million from the Fresh Air Fund.
The institute bought the property, which was previously owned by the Capuchin Friars, for $7.4 million, then sold the 1929 brick friary, known as Glenclyffe, to the Garrison Institute, a nonprofit retreat center.
Chinese government institutes have bought some of the most sensitive equipment, including some from Germany that could be used to manufacture radiation-hardened electronics and solar cells for satellites, high-power radio-frequency weapons and infrared sensors and imaging equipment.
Many types of research instruments are very expensive for individual institutes to buy and maintain.
Typically, the retreat strategy is used with other planning techniques such as identifying high-risk areas, regulating types of structures, and instituting buy-back programs or financial aid for relocation.
It is unreasonable to ask students to pay hundreds of dollars for proprietary software, and most undergraduate departments are unable or unwilling to invest thousands of dollars into bioinformatics teaching resources although with institutes like Northwestern buying campus-wide access to proprietary programs, this might be changing.
Over the years, the institute has bought more hospital property from the state, for a total of 506 acres.
Wanting museum-quality storage for my personal costume institute, I bought acid-free boxes and tissue paper from an archival materials catalog.
