$2 million: Physicist Mani Bhaumik to UCLA’s Division of Physical Sciences, to create the Mani L. Bhaumik Graduate Fellowship in Theoretical Physics and support a space for collaborative study. Bhaumik emigrated to the U.S. from India in 1959 and worked on laser technology that led to Lasik eye surgery.
$1 million: Painter Jamie Wyeth and his wife, Phyllis, a horse breeder, to the Monhegan Museum of Art & History, located on an island off the coast of Maine, where artists including Jamie’s father, Andrew Wyeth, and Edward Hopper have worked. The gift through their foundation is a challenge grant, which means the museum has three years to match it.