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The W. M. Keck Foundation is an American charitable foundation supporting scientific, engineering, and medical research in the United States. It was founded in 1954 by William Myron Keck, founder and president of Superior Oil Company (now part of ExxonMobil). The Foundation's trust fund currently has assets in excess of 1 billion U.S. Dollars. ==Overview== From its founding until his death in 1964, the Foundation was led by William Myron Keck. From 1964 to 1995, it was led by W. M. Keck's son, Howard B. Keck. Robert Addison Day, W. M. Keck's grandson has been chairman and president since 1996. The Foundation provides grants in five broad areas: science and engineering research, undergraduate science and engineering, medical research, liberal arts, in Southern California. Some of the more notable projects that have received funding from the Keck Foundation include: * The W.M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training at Rice University in Houston, Texas (training arm of the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC)) * Support for building of the W.M. Keck Observatory at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington * Construction of the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii * Expansion of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California * The W.M. Keck Building Center for fMRI & the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Ocean-Atmosphere Research at the University of California, San Diego * Creation of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, California * Sponsor of the Keck Computer Science Lab at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California * The W.M. Keck Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at University of California, Irvine * The (WM Keck Center for 3D Innovation ) at University of Texas at El Paso * The William M. Keck Building at the California Institute of Technology * The W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, and Scripps College. * The Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.. *The Keck Science Center at Pepperdine University.〔http://www.pepperdine.edu/annualreports/2002/spanning.htm〕 * The Keck Array * W.M.Keck Earth Science and Metal Engineering Museum at the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, whose renovation the foundation funded, at the University of Nevada, Reno The Keck Foundation has been a long-time supporter of public television in Southern California, including underwriting the broadcast of Sesame Street on KCET since the 1970s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. M. Keck Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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