An idea that started in the back of a car in Ethiopia 21/2 years ago culminated Wednesday with a $45 million gift to Drexel University's public health school and a new name: the Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health. The donation, one of the largest in the university's history and by far the biggest for the public health school, will strengthen Drexel's long-standing commitment to Philadelphia neighborhoods and broaden its global work in urban health. Wednesday's announcement brings the California couple's Drexel gifts to $58 million. Dana Dornsife grew up in Yardley and graduated from Drexel with a bachelor's degree in business in 1983 - 13 years before the school of public health was founded.

October 1, 2015 ・ From Philadelphia Inquirer