News Type: Press Release

Jacquelline FullerBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] LONDON — At the WHO/UNICEF Africa Malaria Day observance in London today, Regina Rabinovich, MD, MPH, director of the Infectious Diseases program at…

L.G. Blanchard or Walter NearyPhone: 206.543.3620 SEATTLE — The University of Washington today announced a major gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enhances the University of Washington’s…

Betsy BergsteinFor Meyer Memorial TrustPhone: (503) 241-8383Email: [email protected] PORTLAND, Or. — The Meyer Memorial Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $25 million investment to start new…

Sandy V. RodriguezChicago Public Schools Office of CommunicationsPhone: 773.553.1620 CHICAGO — The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is seeking partners to create 12 new small high schools over the next five…

Kirsten MacintyreCalifornia Community CollegesPhone: 916.322.0277Email: [email protected] SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a $9 million commitment to the California Community Colleges (CCC) to create 15 early college…

Victor Zonana International Partnership for MicrobicidesPhone: 212.929.7888Email: [email protected] NEW YORK — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced its commitment to make a $60 million grant to the International Partnership…

Marie GroarkBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] BOSTON — To ensure that fewer of America’s high school students are left behind, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today committed…

Marie GroarkBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that Ray McNulty, current Vermont education commissioner, has been named program director within…

Gordon JohnsonWolfson College, Cambridge UniversityPhone: + 44.1223.335936 CAMBRIDGE, England — The Gates Cambridge Trust has completed the first phase of its selection of Gates Scholars to enter Cambridge University for graduate…

Annette de SotoFriends of the Children, King CountyPhone: 206.328.3535 Amy LowGMMB (for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)Phone: 206.352.8598, E-mail: [email protected] SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Pacific Northwest…