{"id":164093,"date":"2026-07-24T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/164093\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:23:13","slug":"nvidia-ceo-donates-75m-to-vanderbilt-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/164093\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA CEO Donates $75M to Vanderbilt San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt University has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2026\/07\/21\/generous-gift-establishes-flagship-for-vanderbilts-san-francisco-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\">received a $75 million gift<\/a> from NVIDIA President and CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori, for its new San Francisco campus, which is slated to open in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The private university in Nashville, Tenn., is taking over the campus of California College of the Arts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2026\/01\/14\/calif-college-arts-close-sell-campus-vanderbilt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which will close <\/a>at the end of the 2026\u201327 academic year. Vanderbilt San Francisco will serve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, with a focus on engineering, entrepreneurship and design. Its flagship college will now be known as the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology expands what we can build. Art and design\u00a0determine\u00a0why we build it. Together they shape civilization,\u201d Jensen Huang <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2026\/07\/21\/vanderbilt-to-establish-the-jen-hsun-and-lori-huang-college-of-art-architecture-and-design-in-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe are delighted to partner with Vanderbilt University to cultivate the next generation of creators and help San Francisco remain one of the world\u2019s great centers of creativity,\u00a0innovation\u00a0and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huang, an engineer, founded the computer chip company NVIDIA in 1993. The gift to Vanderbilt San Francisco, made through the foundation he runs with Lori, represents his largest higher education gift to date. He has also donated tens of millions of dollars to his alma maters, Oregon State and Stanford Universities.<\/p>\n<p>According to Vanderbilt, the Huangs\u2019 donation has inspired additional philanthropic support for the San Francisco campus, bringing the total investment so far to over $100 million\u2014more than 40\u00a0percent of the funds needed by the end of 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt University has received a $75 million gift from NVIDIA President and CEO Jensen Huang and his wife,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[149],"tags":[1847,1846,1786,1845,574,836,50],"class_list":["post-164093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jensen-huang","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jensen-huang","tag-jobs","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116973758319850748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}