The Wall Street Journal is reporting today (reprinted here by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) that $390 million in potential donations won’t actually be made to Harvard (at least, not until the new president is installed, which might not be until next year) now that Summers has left his post as Harvard’s president. A lot of the money would have gone to scientific research. Here’s what the article says:

“…Three of the withheld gifts would have been the largest in Harvard’s history. They included $100 million from media mogul Mortimer Zuckerman to fund a neuroscience institute that has generated intense interest among Harvard researchers, and $100 million from Richard A. Smith, a former member of Harvard’s governing board, to fund a 500,000-square-foot science complex planned for a new campus in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.”