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Originally published Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Nebraska honors ex-Microsoft exec

An honors program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been renamed for former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes. The Board of Regents...

By The Associated Press

LINCOLN, Neb. — An honors program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been renamed for former Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes.

The Board of Regents voted Friday to change the name of the J.D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management to the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management.

The university said Raikes is a longtime supporter of the program and recently gave a sizable donation to it. The Nebraska native is on the program's board and was once the chairman.

Last month, Raikes was put in charge of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest charitable foundation.

C. Edward McVaney, an Omaha native who founded the J.D. Edwards computer software company, pledged $32 million to start the program in 2001. The university said McVaney has approved changing the program's name.

J.D. Edwards is no longer in business.

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