professor, Randall White, resigned from NYU's existing Center for Ancient Studies – which is independent of the new Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – saying that he opposed the acceptance of a donation from a foundation whose benefactor had sometimes been associated with such questionable practices and trafficking. Several scholars outside NYU, notably from Bryn Mawr College, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cincinnati, also commented negatively on NYU's acceptance of the gift. Many other scholars, however, supported the institute and the gift. Professor James McCredie, of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU's graduate teaching and advanced research center for art history, wrote a letter to Provost David McLaughlin endorsing the project. It was signed by IFA's seven professors of ancient art and architecture, and the controversy soon died out. Legacy and awards In 2008, he was inducted into Institutional Investors Alpha's Hedge Fund Manager Hall of Fame along with Alfred Jones, Bruce Kovner, David Swensen, George Soros, Jack Nash, James Simons, Julian Roberston, Kenneth Griffin, Louis Bacon, Michael Steinhardt, Paul Tudor Jones, Seth Klarman and Steven A. Cohen. Publications and works In 2002, Levy published a memoir, written with Eugene Linden, called The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market (Perseus Book Group). See also List of City College of New York alumni References External links Leon Levy Foundation website Levy Economics Institute of Bard College The Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications Forbes.com: Forbes 400 Richest in America 2002 "Challenge: How vulnerable is Wall Street?", Leon Levy interview, Nov-Dec, 1998 1925 births 2003 deaths Jewish American bankers Jewish American philanthropists Businesspeople from Queens, New York American bankers American billionaires City College of New York alumni Art and cultural repatriation Townsend Harris High School alumni Philanthropists from New York (state) 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews