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Professor donates to international studies

University international studies centers benefit from $9.8 million endowment

The Center for South Asian Studies and the East Asia Center, along with several other international studies programs, recently received more than $386,000 to strengthen and elevate their programs for the 2009-10 school year, thanks to late Economics Prof. Gertrude Greenslade.

Prior to her death in March 2007, Greenslade arranged to leave $9.8 million in an endowment to the University's international studies programs. Now, those funds are beginning to be distributed to various University beneficiaries, College Dean Meredith Woo said, adding that the terms of the endowment mandate that only 5 percent may be distributed immediately.

The money also will contribute to exchange programs between the University and the University of Rome,

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