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Front entrance to Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Founded in 1998 through the efforts of William Henry Danforth, chancellor emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis, the Center was established with a $60 million gift from the Danforth Foundation, a $50 million gift from the Monsanto Fund, the donation of 40 acres of land from Monsanto, and $25 million in tax credits from the State ...
James C. Carrington is a plant biologist and the current president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. In 2005 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2008 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [2]
Danforth founded the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, named after his father, in 1998 and was the Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the center. [6] Before dissolving in 2011, the Danforth Foundation gave its final $70 million to the center. In total, under William's stewardship, the foundation contributed over $423 million to ...
Roger N. Beachy is an American biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences who studies plant virology. He was the founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and the first director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
He later served as interim president of two institutions, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (2009) and the Saint Louis Science Center (2011). [15] Dr. Needleman briefly served on the board of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a privately held company which he left when it was merged with Discovery Partners in 2006.
Pennington is on the boards of Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; Shakespeare Festival St. Louis; Saint Louis Fashion Fund; United Way of Greater St. Louis [5] and Whitaker Foundation. [8] She is also a co-chair of the Forest Park Forever 2019 Women's Committee and 29th Annual Hat Luncheon. [9]
$45 million to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, part of which established the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute to pursue green energy projects. $40 million to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra [3] $30 million to the Missouri Botanical Garden to fund global plant research. It was the largest gift ever to a U.S ...
Mark Stephen Wrighton (born June 11, 1949) [1] is an American academic and chemist who was President Emeritus of George Washington University [2] and has been serving as Chancellor Emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis since May 2019 after serving as the 14th Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1995 to 2019.