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University of California-Irvine Names School for Billionaire Developer.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 10--A billionaire developer who rarely speaks publicly was honored Wednesday for making a donation that will help people communicate globally. The University of California, Irvine, named a major building and a school after Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Co.

Bren also was awarded the University of California's highest honor, the Presidential Medal, during a groundbreaking ceremony for Bren Hall that attracted about 300 people, including several pioneering figures in the world of computing.

The new complex will expand UCI's fast-growing computer school, which was renamed the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. The name change comes...

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