Pledges of $2.5M bring School of Mines close to goal for petroleum building - Denver Business Journal:

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million in pledges from and its boar dexecutive chairman, Harold Korell. Funds are being raiseed by the Golden colleged forMarquez Hall, a $25 millio teaching and research facility that will houser Mines’ petroleum engineering department. The new pledgea consist of $1.25 million from Houston-based Southwestern Energy (NYSE: SWN) in honore of Korell, its former CEO and a 1968 Mines graduate; and a matching pledgre from Korell andhis wife, Patricia. “The generous giftsx that Southwestern Energy and Harold and Pat Korell have pledged toward Marquez Hall will help us to extene our leadership in energy educatiojnand research,” said Mines President Bill Scoggins.
“Suchu support from corporate and alumnki partners is critical to creating the campuss infrastructure we need to keep our studentse and faculty at the forefrontof innovation.”