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UM receives $32.5M gift to expand art, design educationDetroit Free PressThe gift will be matched by $7.5 million from the university – adding a total of $40 million to the school, which will be renamed the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, after the donor, Penny Stamps. The art and design school will…
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Stamps: $32.5M Gift to UM Art SchoolThe Ann Arbor ChronicleThe University of Michigan School of Art & Design will be renamed in honor of Penny and Roe Stamps, following a $32.5 million donation to the school from the family's foundations. The news was announced at the Sept. 20, 2012 meeting of the UM board of…