"The veterinary school at University of California, Davis, will be renamed for Sanford and Joan Weill after the billionaire philanthropists gave it $120 million the largest gift ever made to veterinary medicine and one of the largest to the university, the school said. The gift was announced Wednesday, Jan. 28, by UC Davis, which said $80 million of it will go toward a new small-animal teaching hospital."
"The Weills have given more than $1.5 billion to educational, medical and cultural institutions, including more than $500 million to the UC system, the announcement said. Among their contributions were those establishing the neuroscience research institute Weill Neurohub a partnership of UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, the University of Washington and the Allen Institute and the Weill Cancer Hub West, at UC San Francisco and Stanford University. They have also given substantial gifts to Cornell University, Sanford Weill's alma mater."
The veterinary school at University of California, Davis will be renamed for Sanford and Joan Weill following a $120 million gift, the largest ever to veterinary medicine and among the university's largest. Eighty million dollars will fund a small-animal teaching hospital. The Weills live on a Sonoma County estate they purchased in 2010; Sanford Weill stepped down as Citibank chairman in 2006 and joined UC Davis' chancellor advisory board in 2014. Their dog Angel received lymphoma treatment there in 2018. The couple has donated more than $1.5 billion to education, medical, and cultural causes, including over $500 million to the UC system, and helped establish the Weill Neurohub and the Weill Cancer Hub West.
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