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Ohio University issued the following news release:

President Roderick J. McDavis announced that Violet Patton, a 1938 College of money clips alumna, has given a $28 million gift to Ohio University in honor of her parents, David and Gladys Patton, both educators. This latest gift is in addition to a $13.3 million gift she made earlier this year. In 2010, Patton has gifted more than $41 million to Ohio University.

In recognition of this most recent generous donation, the college will be renamed in honor of her parents, pending approval by the Board of Trustees. The Gladys W. and David H. Patton College will be only the third named college of education in Ohio.

"This multimillion dollar gift is the single largest gift ever received by our College of Education," McDavis said. "In fact, it is the largest gift to any college of education in Ohio, and one of the largest single gifts to any college of education in the nation."

The College of Education is currently undergoing restructuring and tiffany engagement rings and will take on several programs from the College of Health and Human Services in July. In light of these changes the College of Education will be renamed, and will receive its new, permanent name in July.

"Our faculty and staff are engaged in a collaborative process to re-name this college to recognize and to welcome the full range of disciplines it will soon encompass," McDavis said. "It will be great to see the "Patton College" come to life at Ohio University."

Executive Vice President and Provost Pam Benoit echoed McDavis' gratitude at Patton's generosity.

"When a college is named, it is recognition that it has not only fulfilled the promise of its founding but is ready to move to greater heights of excellence," she said.

Patton's $13.3 million gift to Ohio University will establish and fund the Violet L. Patton Center for Arts Education.

Howard Lipman, president and chief executive officer of the Ohio University Foundation, said, "Today, 72 years after her commencement from Ohio University, we're gathered to celebrate Miss Patton's commitment to education and her loyalty to her alma mater: loyalty that has manifested itself in another transformational contribution to our university."

Speaking about Patton and her parents, her attorney, Jack Charney, said in a cheap bangles statement that, "All three were from southern Ohio, all three were born and raised there, and all three were educated at Ohio University."

David Patton was a nationally known educator, serving as the superintendent of numerous school districts in Ohio and in Syracuse, N.Y. He was renowned for his expertise in and textbooks on spelling instruction. Gladys Patton also wrote textbooks and worked with her daughter on a series of etiquette books for children.

The University of Tennessee issued the following news release:

A gift from an alumna is helping the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's cufflinks of Arts and Sciences attract the best and brightest students to its graduate programs.

The Newton W. and Wilma C. Thomas Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences will establish 13 graduate fellowships for doctoral students in those disciplines beginning next fall.

"Graduate students contribute significantly to our research and teaching mission. Offering competitive assistantships and fellowships - particularly in the humanities - is critical to recruiting talented students who will contribute to our knowledge-based economy," said Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.

The fellows will receive $16,000 annually for four years as they pursue doctoral degrees in their respective fields. The fellows will not have teaching requirements during their first year of study. In subsequent years, recipients will be assigned as graduate assistants or graduate teaching assistants.

"The Thomas Fellowships will give us the opportunity to earrings some of the best graduate students in the country to our outstanding doctoral programs in the humanities and social sciences," said Bruce Bursten, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. "We are very grateful to the donors for their support in helping us further our goals for excellence in graduate education."

The Thomas Fellows will be selected from the graduate student applicant pool based on their undergraduate institution, grade-point average, graduate entrance exam (GRE) scores, honors and awards. The first group of fellows will be chosen this spring.

Wilma Thomas was a Knoxville native and a member of the 1934 class in the College of Arts and Sciences. She passed away in 2006, but established an endowment as part of her estate gift. Her husband, Newton Thomas, was an executive with Coca-Cola.

The gift is part of the university's $1 billion fundraising campaign, the Campaign for necklaces. The most ambitious effort in the university's history, the campaign places UT among the ranks of the nation's largest public and private institutions that have sought this level of private support.

By Bill Mossman, U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii Public Affairs

When it comes to assisting comrades in harm's way, the blood donor center, bangles, has a lifesaving reach that extends not only throughout the Pacific Rim, but also to faraway places such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

Each week, the Tripler Blood Donor Center and its team of phlebotomists draw a self-imposed quota of 200 units, or pints, from both walk-in donors and those they encounter at blood drives.

Once collected, the platelet donations are tested and then either stored at Tripler to help in local emergencies, shipped off to distant lands, where service members are deployed or routed to areas dealing with man-made or natural disasters.

Assisting the local center with the number of blood donor requests here and abroad are approximately 20 other Armed Services Blood Program centers, located within the continental U.S. and in foreign countries.

"If we had a big emergency here, it would take about 24 hours before blood could be shipped in," explained Michelle Lele, recruiter, Tripler Blood Donor Center, "so we always have to make sure we have an adequate supply of blood on hand. It's sort of like an insurance policy for us in Hawaii."

And while the center hasn't yet been asked to donate blood to Haitian residents, whose Caribbean country was rocked by a devastating earthquake on Jan. 12, Lele said the center's willingness to assist remains for any emergency situation around the globe.

"When Fort Hood had the shootings last November, we rings a request to send blood there, and we did," she said, "so if an emergency arises, we're more than capable of helping out."

Still, the demands for additional blood have risen sharply in recent days. Up until last month, for example, the center was only asked to provide 20 units of blood for service members stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since then, the requested number has doubled.

"In 2010, we are hoping to collect at least 1,000 more units of blood," said Lele, adding that should the center come up short of its quota, the fallback option will be to purchase blood from the mainland.

"But that would be very expensive," she noted.

With that in mind, the push for additional blood was launched in January, on the 40th anniversary since former President Richard Nixon designated January as National Blood Donor Month.

Already, the local center has scheduled some 15 blood drives through the end of February, including dates at Fort Shafter and the Hale Koa Hotel at Fort DeRussy. (See below for dates.)

Earlier this week, Cadet Tari Rulloda was one of about 60 men and women enrolled in the bracelets ROTC program, Warrior Battalion, to show for an early morning blood drive at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Giving blood, the college junior explained, is something she manages to work into her schedule several times each year.

"I've been to Iraq before," Rulloda said, "and I know that the need for blood is important, especially when you have your comrades in battle."

SUNY Canton issued the following news release:

Retired biology teacher Michael J. O'Reilly '58, of Chaumont, N.Y., has made a tiffany silver pendants of $1.24 million - the second largest individual gift in the College's history - to his alma mater, SUNY Cortland, for the creation of a science education scholarship.

"I loved my time in Cortland and my career as a science teacher," said O'Reilly, who taught for 33 years, the last 28 of them in Spring Valley, N.Y., as part of the East Ramapo Central School District. "Education still excites me. I want to help talented SUNY Cortland students become junior high and senior high school science teachers. My hope is that they will inspire our nation's children to pursue science as a field of study and a career."

His bequest, which establishes the Michael J. O'Reilly '58 Scholarship in Science Teacher Education, targets talented undergraduate and graduate students with financial need to enter a junior high or senior high school teaching career.

"Michael's scholarship, together with our multimillion-dollar tiffany silver rings that will provide first rate science facilities on our campus, will greatly help SUNY Cortland attract support and educate the science teachers of tomorrow," said Raymond Franco, vice president for institutional advancement at SUNY Cortland.

A native of Watertown, N.Y., O'Reilly grew up the third of five children in a family of modest income but strong education and work ethic values. His siblings, including his older brother, Lawrence, a SUNY Cortland graduate and later a Health Department faculty member in the 1960s, went on to distinguished teaching careers, too.

O'Reilly worked for two years after high school and pondered an engineering career like his father, who designed state highways.

"I didn't have a scholarship so I decided to take my first two years at a SUNY school," explained O'Reilly, attending Cortland when it was tuition-tiffany. "Once I was there, I decided to stay and complete my specialization in science education. My primary area was elementary education."

The University of Texas at Dallas issued the following news release:

UTeach Dallas has received a gift of $500,000 from the O'Donnell tiffany silver earrings to help increase the number of middle and high school teachers certified to teach math or science.

The gift will help support the UTeach Dallas endowment and provides flexibility to support scholarships, internships and other aspects of the program.

"We are very pleased that the Foundation has provided support to the UTeach Dallas effort to encourage science and mathematics majors at UT Dallas to prepare for teaching careers," said Dr. Myron Salamon, dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. "The O'Donnell gift will be matched by the National Mathematics Science Initiative (NMSI) at the end of its current five-year grant to UTeach Dallas."

NMSI is a broad public-private partnership formed to reverse the decay of national math and science education and prepare students for the rigors of collegiate science classes. NSMI has helped replicate UT Austin's original UTeach program in 15 universities across the country, including UT tiffany silver keyrings, the University of Florida, the University of California, Berkeley, Louisiana State University and others.

President Obama announced in early January that NMSI would receive support to expand to 20 universities nationwide. The new replication sites for UTeach include, among others, UT Arlington and UT Tyler, bringing the number of UTeach sites in the UT System to four.

UTeach Dallas launched in 2008 and expanded rapidly to include 150 students. Sixty percent of UTeach Dallas students are seeking certification to teach science, and 40 percent are seeking certification in math. Although nearly 50 percent of the nation's teachers walk away from the profession within five years, about 80 percent of UTeach graduates are still teaching five years after graduation.

"The generous support from the O'Donnell Foundation allows us to target areas essential to the continued success of tiffany silver notes Dallas," said Dr. Mary Urquhart, co-director of UTeach Dallas. "The flexibility of the funding and the high level of support will help our program reach its maximum potential.

University of North Dakota issued the following news release:

Sanford Health-MeritCare and the University of North Dakota Foundation tiffany silver accessories a $1.5 million gift to establish the Dr. Roger Gilbertson Endowed Chair of Neurology at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS). Dr. Gilbertson is president emeritus of MeritCare Health System.

Endowed chairs provide an invaluable means to ensure academic excellence in teaching and research. The Dr. Roger Gilbertson Endowed Chair in Neurology will provide leadership in developing projects involving students in support of the SMHS mission to discover knowledge that benefits the people of North Dakota and enhances the quality of life.

"This gift through the UND Foundation is a true testament of Sanford Health-MeritCare's dedication to the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences and their interest in creating unique opportunities for students," said Tim O'Keefe, executive vice president and CEO of UND Foundation.

"The foresight and generosity of friends like Sanford Health-MeritCare is providing this university its margin of excellence. In honoring Dr. Gilbertson in this fashion, there will also be permanent recognition of his commitment to quality medical education in North Dakota," tiffany silver bangles said.

Lauris Molbert, vice chair of the Sanford Health-MeritCare Board of Trustees said, "The Board wanted to do something to honor and recognize Roger Gilbertson's service to MeritCare that would be as lasting and significant as his contribution to health care throughout the region. This gift lifts up his leadership role as a physician, teacher, and scientist."

"Sanford Health-MeritCare has a broad vision and keen sense of the future because we stood on the shoulders of Roger Gilbertson in establishing it," said Kelby Krabbenhoft, president and CEO of Sanford Health-MeritCare. "This endowment gift exemplifies that vision and the person it honors."

"Combining excellence in medicine, teaching and research is a hallmark of our organization," Krabbenhoft said. "Supporting leadership in the further development of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences is an important way for us to see that is accomplished. This has been an integral part of the growth of MeritCare. And, such support matches Sanford's efforts to expand the potential of the Sanford University of South Dakota School of Medicine."

"Sanford Health-MeritCare has even greater potential to help set the bar involving innovation in clinical tiffany silver bracelets, research and academics," Krabbenhoft said. "Working together with the University of North Dakota and Sanford University of South Dakota medical schools, we can be a national model for the future training of physicians and health professionals."

The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:

The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego today tiffany rings a $2.5 million charitable gift from local philanthropist and business owner Pauline Foster to endow MBA student fellowships. The gift to provide fellowships (graduate level scholarships) to MBA students is part of "Invent the Future: The UC San Diego Student Support Campaign."

Foster's gift kicks off the Rady School's "Fellowships for the Future" initiative, a challenge program intended to encourage others to provide funding for student fellowships. Fellowships are a top fundraising priority for the school as they provide support to MBAs who would otherwise not be able to attend the Rady School due to financial circumstances.

"In these uncertain economic times, fellowship funding is more important than ever," said Rady School Dean Robert S. Sullivan. "The Rady School is thankful to Pauline for her commitment to supporting students, and we are confident that her investment in our students will have a tiffany silver impact on the San Diego business community."

Pauline Foster is a longtime supporter of the Rady School. Her $2.5 million gift will serve as a challenge gift for the school's ongoing student support fundraising efforts. Foster has donated to the Rady School in the past, including the establishment of the $5 million Stanley and Pauline Foster Endowed Chair to support the dean's initiatives and the creation of the Stanley Foster Symposium.

"We are trying to transform the economy, yet people are not focused enough on education," said Pauline Foster. "Providing access to educational opportunities is the most important gift you can give, which is why I chose to support Rady MBA fellowships. The gift of education is one you can't take away."

In addition to Foster's recent gift, more than $200,000 in scholarship funding was raised from nearly 300 guests at the Rady Pinnacle Awards and Alumni Gala last year. One of the main contributors was gala chair Jan Tuttleman, a Rady School alumna. Her gift will help fund student scholarships and a lectureship. Tuttleman is a graduate of the Rady School's FlexMBA program. "Invent the Future: The UC San Diego Student Support Campaign" is a three-year, $50 million fundraising effort launched by the campus in September 2009. Private support generated by the university-wide campaign will help UC San Diego stay competitive in attracting outstanding graduate and undergraduate students to campus.

Pauline Foster, president of Foster Investments, currently serves as chair of the UC San tiffanys Foundation and as a director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the La Jolla Playhouse. Ms. Foster attended Reed College.

Oregon State University issued the following news release:

Oregon's vibrant craft beer industry received a major boost this week with the tiffany pendant that a new aroma hop breeding program will be created in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University.

A gift pledge of $807,000 from Indie Hops, an Oregon-based hop merchant, will support the new program, which will be led by Shaun Townsend, a research associate and hop breeding specialist at OSU.

Indie Hops already has provided $200,000 to OSU's Thomas Shellhammer, holder of the Nor'Wester Professorship in Fermentation Science, to foster research in new techniques for developing aroma hops and to study aroma hop chemistry. The new hop breeding program will work closely with Shellhammer's lab to study hop essential oil composition and how individual oil components impart the characteristic flavor and aroma to beer.

Indie Hops has now committed more than $1 million through the Agricultural Research Foundation to strengthen existing hop research at OSU, specifically addressing the needs of both the craft beer industry and Oregon aroma hop growers. If initial work suggests that there is a tiffany necklace possibility for development of varieties that are desirable to the craft brewing industry, Indie Hops has reserved the right to enter into a research contract with OSU for additional work, Worthington said.

"As the craft beer movement continues to gather speed, the time is right to begin a hop breeding program that is focused on serving the craft brewer's need for new hops that push the flavor and aroma envelope," said Roger Worthington, owner of Indie Hops.

"Indie Hops believes that Oregon State has the skill, experience and passion to bring home new hop varieties that will take craft beer to new and loftier heights," he added.

Oregon is one of the premier aroma hop growing regions in the United States, according to Townsend.

"When you consider the hop research programs and expertise already in place at tiffany bracelet and USDA-Agricultural Research Service, and that we are neighbors with both the aroma hop growers and craft beer industry, the potential we have to solve problems affecting this industry is outstanding," Townsend said.

Target Corp. customers can now store gift card account data electronically and tiffany necklaces payments at the point of sale with mobile phones.

"Mobile devices are becoming a key part of our guests' lives, and we wanted to make their lives easier," Sara Moore, a Target spokeswoman, said in an interview Tuesday.

With the Minneapolis retailer's Mobile GiftCard service, announced Tuesday, consumers use a phone's browser to access Target's Web site, where they may create a PIN-protected account and enroll their gift cards.

The site can store details on multiple cards, and users can select different cards for each transaction. People can also manage their gift cards through the mobile service.

When they want to make a purchase, they access the site, log in and decide which enrolled card they want to use.

The site then creates a barcode that is displayed on the phone's screen, and a Target employee can scan the design to initiate the transaction.

The service is similar to one that Starbucks Corp. has been testing since September at 16 of its coffee shops in Silicon Valley and Seattle, though that system uses an application for Apple Inc.'s popular iPhone handset.

Moore said the Target service works on any tiffany ring phone with a browser and can be used now to make purchases at all of the company's 1,740 stores in the United States.

"Target is the first major retailer with the ability to scan mobile bar codes in all of its stores," the company said in a press release Tuesday.

Target tested the technology last month with employees, including Moore. "I thought it was a neat technology," she said, and the functions were easy to access while shopping.

Several payments companies have long touted the idea of turning mobile phones into digital wallets that can store multiple credit and debit card accounts and be used to initiate purchases at the point of sale.

However, the idea most often discussed is near-field communication chips, the same technology that is used in contactless cards.

Adding NFC components to phones would enabling people to initiate contactless tiffany note by waving their phone near a reader.

That idea has been widely tested all over the world but is not yet commercially available. In the meantime alternative concepts such as mobile barcodes are catching on.

The Starbucks bar-code system uses software from mFoundry Inc.; Moore did not know if Target has collaborated with a payments technology vendor or developed the system internally.

Central Piedmont Community College issued the following press release:

The Dowd Foundation of Charlotte, N.C., has made a $500,000 gift to Central Piedmont tiffany earrings College (CPCC) to sponsor its Engineering Technology Center and help students prepare for engineering careers. In recognition of the Foundation gift, the College will name the Center, which encompasses the engineering laboratories on the first floor of the Advanced Technology Building on Central Campus, the Dowd Engineering Technology Center.

"We are extremely grateful to the Dowd Foundation for its generosity and philanthropic spirit," said Dr. Tony Zeiss, president of CPCC. "Careers in the STEMS (science, technology, engineering, math and sustainability) fields are on the rise across the country as the U.S. strives to produce enough graduates to sustain job growth in these professional industries. Thanks to the Dowd Foundation's gift, hundreds of CPCC students will be able to pursue an education in the engineering sector, an industry that is very much in need of qualified workers prepared to make a contribution to today's workforce."

Mr. Frank Dowd, IV, chairman of the board and CEO for tiffany key Pipe and Foundry Company and vice president of the Dowd Foundation, said "The Dowd Foundation has supported CPCC for decades and this gift is a continuation of that long-term commitment to the College. CPCC provides real-world training for people in areas where high job demand exists - like the engineering sector, an industry that is exceptionally important to the vitality of America's workforce as well as our 108-year-old, Charlotte-based manufacturing company."

The Dowd Engineering Technology Center will provide training to students preparing for careers in a range of engineering fields and will be a resource for the region's workers who are seeking to enhance their skills. Engineering fields utilizing the Center will include mechanical, electrical, and electronics engineering, as well as machining technology, manufacturing technology and integrated systems technology.

Central Piedmont Community College is the largest community college in North Carolina, offering tiffany pendants to 300 degree and certification programs, customized corporate training, market-focused continuing education, and special interest classes. CPCC is academically, financially and geographically accessible to all citizens of Mecklenburg County. In 2002, the National Alliance of Business named CPCC the Community College of the Year for its response to the workforce and technology needs of local employers and job seekers through innovative educational and training strategies.