November 24, 2005

University in Texas Gets $35-Million; Other Gifts

Six institutions have received big gifts:

  • Texas A&M University, in College Station, has received $35-million from George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell to pay for two buildings for the physics and astronomy programs. Mr. Mitchell, the chairman and chief executive officer of Mitchell Energy and Development, a gas and oil company in Houston, graduated from the university in 1940.
  • Anne T. and Robert M. Bass have pledged $30-million to the Stanford University Graduate

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