Salk Institute receives 50 million from Hess Corporation to mitigate

LA JOLLA — (April 3, 2023) Hess Corporation is donating $50 million to the Salk Institute’s Campaign for Discovery: The Power of Science, a seven-year, $750 million comprehensive fundraising campaign to attract the people and build the technology and space necessary to accelerate critical research. This gift will specifically advance Salk’s Harnessing Plants Initiative — an effort to mitigate climate change by optimizing plants and supporting wetlands to increase capture of excess atmospheric carbon — and provide vital infrastructure for this work by establishing the new Hess Center for Plant Science. The Hess Corporation gift will be dispersed over five…