John Hopkins Alum Donates $30M for Engineering School

BALTIMORE — John C. Malone, chairman of Liberty Media Corp. and a John Hopkins alumnus, donated $30 million to the university’s Whiting School of Engineering to construct a building that allows collaborative research for systems-based approaches to some of society’s biggest problems.

 

The largest amount ever donated to the school, the money will go toward the construction of a 56,000-square-foot research building on the university’s Homewood campus. Malone Hall will include the Systems Institute and the Homewood base for Johns Hopkins’ emerging initiative in individualized health.

 

"We are deeply grateful to John Malone for this truly transformational gift," said Ronald J. Daniels, the university’s president. "Scientists from all across Johns Hopkins will join together in Malone Hall, building on the foundation laid by the Whiting School’s own engineers, mathematicians and computational scientists."

 

Construction of the four-story structure is expected to begin in 2012.

 

Malone, who is widely recognized as a pioneer in communications and media, earned his masters of science degree in industrial management from Johns Hopkins in 1964, followed by a Ph.D. in operations research three years later. He is chairman of Liberty Media Corp., a holding company engaged primarily in the electronic retailing, media, communications and entertainment industries. Interests include QVC, Starz, the Atlanta Braves and Sirius XM Radio Inc.