Sidney Kimmel Institute at the University of Missouri

摘要

Sidney Kimmel, a philanthropist who founded The Jones Group—which encompasses fashion industry pillars such as Jones New York, Anne Klein, Nine West and Gloria Vanderbilt—made the largest donation ever given by a non-alumnus to the University of Missouri (MU). The $5.5 million is to be used to create the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR), which will study effects related to low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR). At the time of the donation, Kimmel stated, "Very much like my commitments to cancer research, I believe in investing for America's future generations.