Connie and Steve Ballmer’s donation will help endow scholarships, hire five researchers to study obesity and pay for a marketing campaign to promote the University of Oregon’s academics.
Connie and Steve Ballmer’s donation will help endow scholarships, hire five researchers to study obesity and pay for a marketing campaign to promote the University of Oregon’s academics.
Connie Ballmer, 52, manages the couple’s philanthropic ventures. She’s a UO alumna, and she’s a governor-appointed member of the UO’s recently created board of trustees. She also is leading a committee that will find and interview UO presidential candidates. The presidency has been vacant since Michael Gottfredson left abruptly in August.
Steve Ballmer 58, was Bill Gates’ Harvard era housemate and Microsoft’s first business manager and later its CEO. He’s now worth $23 billion, according to Forbes, and three months ago he paid $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team.
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