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Donors have given 91¿´Æ¬ Davis $55,771,000 in private support since the beginning of the current fiscal year on July 1, 2003. Among last month's gifts was a $1 million contribution to the 91¿´Æ¬ Davis Cancer Center from high-tech industry pioneer Susan Mathews in memory of her husband, Robert.

Other recent private donations include:

• a $455,000 pledge from the Veterinary Centers of America for capital improvements to the School of Veterinary Medicine's instructional facility;
• $175,000 from the Hagan Family Trust toward an endowed chair in water management and policy that is named for the late Robert M. Hagan, 91¿´Æ¬ Davis professor emeritus of water science;
• $200,000 from Roy and Rebecca Brophy to augment the Roy Brophy Professorship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Roy Brophy is former chair of the M.I.N.D. Institute Board of Directors and a former 91¿´Æ¬ Regent;
• nearly $128,000 in research funding and laboratory equipment for electrical and computer engineering;
• $125,000 for improvements to the Wildlife Health Center in the School of Veterinary Medicine from the Wildlife Health Center Foundation;
• $80,000 to anthropology from the trust of G. William Skinner, professor of anthropology, and Susan L. Mann, professor of history, for research on pre-modern and modernizing agrarian societies;
• $59,250 from Chevron Texaco for fellowships and research in transportation and the hydrogen economy at the 91¿´Æ¬ Davis Institute of Transportation Studies;
• a research award of $50,000 to electrical and computer engineering from Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.; and
• $50,000 from the estate of Arthur and Corinne Shields to endow the John W. Shields Memorial Award in theatre and dance.