At the annual Beneficial-Hodson Trust awards luncheon on Dec. 4, 1997, trust chairman Finn M.W. Caspersen presented university President William R. Brody with a check and Beneficial Corporation stock totaling $1.85 million. The gift included $1.35 million for the Beneficial-Hodson Scholarships endowment, Homewood Schools; $250,000 for the Gilbert and Aileen Schiffman Fellowships, School of Continuing Studies; $100,000 each for the Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards and the Young Investigators Fund in Oncology; and $50,000 for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library endowment to support graduate assistants in information technology.

David Koch, of New York City, has made a gift of $1 million through CapCure to support prostate cancer research in the Brady Urological Institute at the School of Medicine.

The Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Foundation has made a $750,000 commitment to support cancer research, to be used at the discretion of Oncology Center director Martin D. Abeloff.

Karl H. Hagen, of Falls Church, Va., who previously gave the Wilmer Eye Institute real estate valued at $1.1 million, has made an additional gift of $600,000 and also is establishing a unitrust. Hagen's commitments will fund the Karl H. Hagen Professorship in Ophthalmology as well as an endowment for treatment of macular degeneration.