With the largest private gift to a public college, the new facility aims to infuse the local economy with fresh opportunities, but returns on the investment are anything but guaranteed.

‘Tis the season to be sciency.

Private funders are starting to support big projects, and they’re rewriting the playbook on fueling scientific research.

The donation to the University of California, Irvine, is slated to fund a new college focusing on what some critics call pseudoscience and quackery.

Steve Braun of Cures Within Reach, a nonprofit focused on breathing new life into old medicines, describes the potential benefits of drug repurposing.

Sciencey gifts for the science-minded giver

Meet the researcher/entrepreneur who started a nonprofit that seeks to solve the science behind a rare disease that threatens the life of her younger brother.

But can $3 billion dollars meet the lofty goals of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative?

The Oracle cofounder’s gift will fund a new institute at the University of Southern California.

Billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sean Parker donates $250 million to unite the cancer research community around the common goal of developing new immunotherapies.