Brandeis gets its largest alumni gift ever

By Jillian Jorgensen, Globe Correspondent

A Brandeis University alumnus has pledged $15 million to the university, the largest gift from a graduate in the school’s history, the university announced today.

Donald Soffer, a real estate developer and founder of Turnberry Associates in Florida, gave the gift, which officials said would help fund the continuing construction of the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center at the university’s Waltham campus.

The school will name for Soffer the atrium of the 175,000-square-foot science center, which is the centerpiece of the The Campaign for Brandeis’s science initiative, officials said.

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