 This award was at the time the largest cash gift in UF history and it was matched by the State of Florida to help create a $30 million permanent endowment devoted to fundamental research on the mechanisms underlying the formation, storage and retrieval of memories, the impairments in these processes associated with aging, and the development of therapeutic strategies for the prevention and/or alleviation of these impairments in humans.Jenene Nagy

Jenene Nagy, a native of New York is a Portland, Oregon, based installation artist and curator.She received her masters of fine arts from the University of Oregon in 2004 and has co-curated the noted Tilt Gallery and Project Space in the Everett Station Lofts since January 2006.