Photo of the Week: Back to the Books Freshman Ariane Helou reads her French homework during a sunny Thursday afternoon on faculty glade last semester. Classes resumed Jan. 18, so expect to see more scenes like this. Noah Berger photo.

Five founders of an international consulting firm specializing in economics and finance -- all of them Berkeley professors -- have pledged $1 million to attract the best graduate students and faculty members to campus.

The donors have designated their gift for students in economics, agricultural and natural resource economics, and business. The fund also is intended to support graduate-level research in economics and business.

These faculty members established the Law and Economics Consulting Group, better known as LECG, a leading firm in the field of applied economics and finance. It is one of the world's largest private sector employers of Ph.D. economists and financial economists.

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