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Chapman University Receives $2.5 Million Donation from Kay Family Foundation

The $2.5 million gift from the Kay Family Foundation funds faculty, student and potentially alumni research, projects, and other activities in the field of data analytics (often referred to as big data). 

The fund will be distributed over a five-year window in equal $500,000 increments, targeted to primarily support applied analytics research that impacts business and society. 

Four Chapman faculty members have been selected as the 2016 grant winners for the Kay Family Foundation donation. The winners transcend interdisciplinary studies and share their work relating to big data below.

Dr. Hesham El-Askary
Dr. Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook
Dr. Erik Linstead
Dr. Abel Winn

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The Kay Family Foundation is a grant-making foundation that promotes new models and systems that produce 21st century global leaders in Orange County.