The Wyss Foundation is excited to announce a grant of $72,500,000 to the Fondation Beyeler in order to support the expansion of the existing art museum. The Beyeler Museum, founded in 1997 by Swiss collectors and philanthropists Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, is Switzerland’s most visited art museum and regarded as one of the finest internationally.
Read MoreThe Wyss Campaign for Nature released a new report this morning spotlighting the critical leadership indigenous and local communities are providing to safeguard the planet’s vulnerable lands, oceans, and wildlife.
Read MoreScientific, academic, and philanthropic leaders gathered on Monday, December 7th at the University of Zurich for the official inauguration ceremony for the Wyss Zurich Translational Center, a new multi-disciplinary research and development institution development center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich).
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation, a charitable organization that promotes land conservation in the U.S. West, has selected three Yale students as 2014 Wyss Scholars — Benjamin Hayes M.F. ‘15, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Marsters M.E.M. ‘16 M.B.A. ‘16, and Mordechai Treiger LAW ‘15.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation has announced its selection of three 2013 Wyss Scholars from Yale—Whitney Leonard LAW ’15, Hanna Mershman M.F. ’14 and Heather West M.E.M/M.B.A ’15
Read MoreEngineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 has given Harvard University $125 million to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
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