Caltech Gift to Fund Work in Space Sciences
Caltech has received a gift of $100,000 from the Lewis A. Kingsley Foundation of Garden Grove to establish the Merle Kingsley Endowed Fund for Astrophysics and Space Science.
The fund will provide discretionary support to faculty and students involved in the teaching, research, and study of issues at the forefront of astrophysics and space science.
The fund is named for Merle Kingsley Elkus, who with her late husband, Lewis Kingsley, established the foundation in 1963.
The primary funding area of the foundation is higher and secondary education in the form of scholarships to organizations in the Los Angeles area.
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