NORMAL — Alan James "Jim" Brook, age 76, of Normal, IL, passed away at 4:42 a.m. on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, IL. His funeral service will be 1: ...

Hedge fund billionaire Jim Simons made one of the largest gifts in the history of higher education Thursday, gifting $500 million to Stony Brook, the Long Island institution where he once taught math.

The donation was made by the Simons Foundation, which was formed in 1994 by Jim Simons, a former Stony Brook math professor who later made billions as a hedge fund manager, and his wife Marilyn ...