BALTIMORE — John Malone, the billionaire chairman of Liberty Media, has given Johns Hopkins University’s engineering school $30 million for a research building.
The gift will finance construction of a 56,000-square-foot building for studying social and industrial systems and individualized health care treatment, the Baltimore university said in a statement on its website Monday. The building will be named after Malone.
Malone, 69, received a master’s of science degree in industrial management and a Ph.D. in operations research from Johns Hopkins. Liberty Media, based in Douglas County, is a holding company that owns the QVC home-shopping channel, the Atlanta Braves baseball team and a stake in Sirius XM Radio. In December, Liberty exchanged 12.8 million shares in IAC/InterActiveCorp, the New York-based owner of online companies, for about $220 million and the businesses Evite and .
“The work that will take place in Malone Hall ultimately will have a profound impact on our world,” said Nick Jones, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering.
