At the 2011 Mines Century Society Dinner on September 30, the university honored some of its most generous donors. This year’s event was themed “Rio to the Rockies” to highlight Mines’ many collaborative relationships in South America.
In June, the Colorado School of Mines Foundation named Brian Winkelbauer the new executive vice president for university advancement. Brian came to Mines from the University of Colorado Foundation, where he last served as vice president for development for the Colorado Springs campus, assisting in launching a $1.5 billion campaign for the CU system.
Each year, the CSM Foundation provides approximately $12 million in private support for the university, one-third of which comprises funding made available through the Mines endowment. During fiscal year 2011, the endowment grew in total value from $166 million to $196 million.
Colorado School of Mines recently received 14 large gifts, including a $100,000 gift from Lonnie L. and Maria E. Abernethy that will provide continuing support for graduate fellowships in ceramics. Read on for the rest…
With a $150,000 grant through HP’s Catalyst Initiative, Mines is helping to develop more effective approaches to STEM education worldwide with the use of tablet PCs in the classroom.
Colorado School of Mines recently received 12 large gifts: The Adolph Coors Foundation contributed a total of $275,000 to support the William K. Coors Distinguished Chair in Chemical Engineering and the Herman F. Coors Professorial Chair in Ceramics. Harry D. Campbell ‘42 made the final $157,769 pledge payment on his $700,000 commitment to Marquez Hall.
With a $105,000 endowment contribution last spring, Ed Gallegos ’92 established a scholarship fund to benefit student-athletes on Mines’ varsity wrestling team.
In October, Mines held its annual Century Society Dinner to honor major contributors to the school and to present its 2010 Philanthropy Awards. This year’s event highlighted some of the university’s research at the frontier of innovation, as well as its mining frontier heritage.
Colorado School of Mines recently received 11 large gifts, including $4.2 million from the Timothy and Bernadette Marquez Foundation and $760,000 from Chevron.
Schlumberger has pledged $1,000,000 toward construction of Marquez Hall, Mines’ new petroleum building slated to open in the fall of 2012. The company’s contribution brings the fundraising total for the Marquez Hall project to more than $26.5 million. To date, 18 of Mines’ corporate partners have invested in the state-of-the-art facility. Groundbreaking for the new
Stewart R. Wallace leaves $1.7 million bequest; $1.4 million in bequest distributions from Mahir M. Jalili ’71 estate; Other recent gifts Colorado School of Mines recently received 19 large gifts: The Alcoa Foundation contributed $150,000 toward a $370,000 pledge to support a recycling, solid waste and public policy initiative in the Division of Economics and
Stewart R. Wallace (1919-2009), former chief geologist for the Climax Molybdenum Company and one-time president of the Society of Economic Geologists, made a bequest in excess of $1.7 million to the Colorado School of Mines Foundation to be divided between scholarships for geology students, support for the Department of Geology and Geological Engineering and unrestricted
A lifelong supporter of Oredigger athletics, Mines alumnus Tony Corbetta recently established an endowed scholarship to benefit varsity athletics. A varsity athlete himself, Tony played football for Mines for a year and a half before his education was interrupted in 1943 by military service in World War II. Returning to Mines in 1946, Corbetta went
Hugh and Michelle Harvey gave Colorado School of Mines $10 million in the spring of 2009 to endow a scholarship program – their story is one of bold entrepreneurship, collaboration, innovation and open-handed generosity.