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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Posner family has donated $5 million to endow at least five undergraduate scholarships at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The gift from the family, including trustee Anne Molloy and her husband, Henry Posner III will go into the school's Presidential Scholarship Fund. The gift was given in the name of Helen and Henry Posner Jr., longtime supporters of the school. The late Henry Posner Jr. a research chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear bomb eventually taught at the University of Pittsburgh and later became a Carnegie Mellon trustee and board member. Helen Posner helped select CMU's library as the repository of the family's collection of rare books and other artifacts.

Posner family gives $5M toward Carnegie Mellon scholarships