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By Larry Gordon
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Caltech has received $30 million in donations to help create an institute for the study of energy innovation, climate change and environmental sustainability, officials announced Monday.

Los Angeles-area philanthropists Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who own the Roll International Corp., donated $20 million to the effort, and a matching program set up by longtime Caltech donors Gordon and Betty Moore gave an additional $10 million.

Plans call for the new Resnick Sustainability Institute ultimately to have a $90-million endowment, but officials said that with the initial gifts, work could begin soon to bring together current Caltech researchers from various disciplines and to hire others. Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau, in a recent statement, said the donations mean that the university is poised to help launch “a new era in energy research.”

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Larry Gordon was a higher education writer for the Los Angeles Times and covered issues affecting colleges and universities in California and around the nation. He has been an assistant city editor and an urban affairs writer at The Times. He previously worked at the Bergen Record and Hudson Dispatch in his native New Jersey. He won a mid-career Fulbright grant to teach journalism in Bulgaria. Gordon has a bachelor’s from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He left The Times in 2015.

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