Maine-based Bowdoin College has returned a higher percentage of its endowment than its much larger and well established peers.
Bowdoin returned 14.4% of its endowment over the past year, bringing its total to $1.4bn. The figure outstrips Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which at 13.2% takes second place. Bowdoin also matches MIT at the top place for ten-year return at 10.5%.
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London say sector pundits.
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