Maria Kovacs' $2 Million Gift Honors Her Brother's Legacy

A gesture of love and gratitude.

Maria Kovacs has made a $2 million donation to support graduate students in Caltech's Theoretical Astrophysics Including Relativity (TAPIR) program. The gift honors her brother, Sándor Kovacs (MS '72, PhD '77), who studied the theory of gravitational waves under the tutelage of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne (BS '62), Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus.

Maria, a psychiatry and psychology professor at the University of Pittsburgh, hopes this gift will link Sándor, whom she calls "öcsi" (Hungarian for "younger brother"), forever with Caltech.

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