Olsen honors his alma mater

Greg Olsen is scheduled to be in Los Angeles Thursday for the ORBIT awards dinner at ISDC, but he has something arguably more important to do today. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Olsen plans to announce a $5 million donation to his alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University, today. Normally in response to such a donation, the university names a building or something after the donor. Instead, Olsen asked that the school rename its School of Computer Sciences and Engineering after two former professors, Lee Gildart and Oswald Haase, who taught Olsen when he was a student there. Olsen had kept in touch with both professors over the years, including on his flight to the ISS last year. ” As he became successful, Olsen never forgot his old professors. He e-mailed Gildart from space and sent Haase his astronaut photo with a note reading, ‘Thanks for getting me started.'”