San Diego State University (SDSU) has announced a $6.25 million grant from the James Silberrad Brown Foundation through the San Diego Foundation.

The grant includes $5 million in support of an artificial intelligence (AI) center at the Fowler College of Business, with $3.5 million allocated to establish and operate the James Silberrad Brown Center for Artificial Intelligence, $1 million to create an endowment in support of a center director, $250,000 to form a fellowship endowment, $250,000 for an endowed scholarship. Another $250,000 will be used to boost SDSU’s fundraising capacity. In addition, $1 million will bolster the Aztecs Going Pro student-athlete career development program, which was established a decade ago to provide skill-enhancing support for SDSU student-athletes

“You don’t necessarily give funding to places, you give it to people, and over the years Jim knew the San Diego State people,” said his widow, Marilyn Creson Brown. “It was about people, and it was about what had been done for him and what he felt he had received from the university, and he wanted to give something back.”

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