Atlas Co-Founder Gives WashU $200 Million for New Health School

Andrew Bursky and his wife pledged $200 million through their family foundation to name a newly created school of public health at Washington University in St. Louis.

The gift from the co-founder of Atlas Holdings, a private equity firm, is the largest in the university’s history, WashU said in a statement on Wednesday.

Bursky, who chairs the school’s board of trustees, met his wife Jane while an undergraduate at the university. The couple, both 69, are long-time donors to the school and previously financed scholarships, research in immunology and provided the seed funding for WashU’s Center for Vaccines ...