1.   And it has endowed a chair in business ethics at the University of Minnesota.

2.   Afterwards, Chichilnisky and Heal are understood to have held discussions with several other universities, seeking to endow chairs that they themselves would hold.

3.   Garcia Marquez and I have endowed a chair with his name at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico.

4.   He began to try to find faculty positions for the Chudnovskys and to raise money to endow chairs for them.

5.   He was looking to endow a chair at his alma mater when he was introduced to the French researcher by a business associate earlier this year.

6.   He was a faculty member for a time at Hofstra University, where he endowed a chair at the law school in alternative dispute resolution.

7.   He wants to endow faculty chairs, to allow teachers to take sabbaticals to write books or to further their education.

8.   More important, they are the first to endow a chair with an exclamation point.

9.   So he began looking for donors to endow chairs, a popular method of drawing in the money needed to snare a high-priced star.

10.   Since then, the Starling Foundation has also endowed chairs at Indiana University, the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute and Carnegie-Mellon University.