David Gross Assumes the Frederick W. Gluck Professorship Santa Barbara, Calif.--Fred Gluck, best known for his legendary performance at the helm of the leading international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, has given $1 million to endow the chair of the director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
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UCSB has been named one of the 12 "hottest" colleges in the nation, according to the Kaplan College Guide.
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Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) solicits applications from journalists and science writers to spend up to 5 months during the spring of 2003 at KITP as a Journalist Fellow.
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The university held a ceremony in June, 2002 to formally name the institute the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The event honored Fred Kavli who made two gifts totaling $7.5 million through the Kavli Foundation and the Kavli Operating Institute for building endowment, supporting the construction of a new wing and programmatic initiatives at the institute. View photographs of the ceremony and read remarks of keynote speaker Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.