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2016

Reynolds And Reynolds Endows Texas A&M Entrepreneur Program for Veterans

To ensure Texas A&M’s ability to help veterans gain economic freedom, Reynolds and Reynolds gives a $2 million gift to support and name the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities in Mays Business School. The camp has helped more than 200 veterans with service-related disabilities learn how to create and sustain entrepreneurial ventures.

Major Gift Paves the Way for Improvements in Humanities Technology

The Humanities Visualization Space in the College of Liberal Arts receives touchscreen upgrades thanks to a gift from Chris '86 and Sally Gavras '86. The space is a high-tech facility aimed at improving humanities research through technology. Students can now analyze and compare digitized works of art and literature with ease. 

Texas A&M Foundation Receives $20 Million Commitment to Name Hagler Institute for Advanced Study

A $20 million gift from Jon Hagler ’58 names the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study and fuels Texas A&M’s brightest thinkers. The institute, a major catalyst for bringing world-renowned scholars to Texas A&M to collaborate on groundbreaking research, now enjoys a permanent source of funding due to Hagler’s generosity. 

Veteran Scholarship Program Serving Well Those Who Have Served

Don and Ellie Knauss create one of the first Aggie Veteran Freedom Scholarships, the largest of three levels of scholarship support for Texas A&M veterans and their spouses. Since the Division of Student Affairs’ campaign to raise more veteran scholarships began in November 2015, 52 endowed scholarships amounting to more than $2.9 million have been raised. The couple increased their commitment in 2017, contributing more than $2 million for both endowed and non-endowed veteran scholarships.

Texas A&M Receives $10 Million Gift From Ed Rachel Foundation in Campaign to Build Music Activities Center

The Ed Rachal Foundation brings the proposed Music Activities Center one step closer to breaking ground with a $10 million gift to name the facility in honor of John D. White ’70 and Robert L. Walker ’58. The new center celebrated an official groundbreaking ceremony on Sept. 8 and will open in fall 2019 as the new home for Texas A&M’s choirs, bands and orchestras. To date, more than $19.4 million in private funds have brought the project to fruition.

2015

A New Energy Alliance

Two Aggie engineers finance an unprecedented collaboration between the colleges of business and engineering to ensure that Texas A&M graduates remain leaders in the energy sector.

Zachry Group Empowers Future Leaders in Engineering

A gift from the Zachry Group establishes a new leadership program in the College of Engineering. Through exposure to business, leadership and citizenship perspectives, the five-semester program annually gives 32 competitively-selected engineering students deeper insight into their individual potential and career possibilities.

Halliburton Donates $5 Million to Texas A&M to Support Global Study Abroad Program

The Halliburton Foundation endows the Halliburton Engineering Global Program Fund with a $5 million gift. The contribution boosts the College of Engineering’s global study programs and ensures that more engineers have the chance to work, study and research abroad.

2014

Gift to Texas A&M Honors Former Head Football Coach R.C. Slocum

Four couples committed $50,000 each to the Texas A&M Foundation in support of the Memorial Student Center (MSC) Renovation and Expansion Project. The $200,000 donation was given in honor of former Texas A&M University Head Football Coach R.C. Slocum. In recognition of the gift, a pillar located in the Trisha and L.C. “Chaz” Neely ’62 12th Man Hall bears Slocum’s name along with the names of the donors. 

ConocoPhillips Donates $6 Million to Texas A&M Engineering

ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Texas A&M University announced a $6 million contribution by ConocoPhillips to the university’s College of Engineering. The multi-year donation supports the construction of the new Engineering Education Complex (EEC).

Actions Yell Louder Than Words

A former Texas A&M University head yell leader and Corps of Cadets member, R. Daniel "Smokey" Hyde Jr. '59 established six endowed scholarships through the Texas A&M Foundation to benefit high-potential cadets for years to come.

Widow of Lockheed Martin Executive Endows Scholarship in His Honor

In 2009, Larry McQuien—a Fort Worth resident and executive at Lockheed Martin—died tragically after being struck by a car during a morning bike ride. His wife Carol established the Larry J. McQuien ’76 “Take Flight Award,” a scholarship for undergraduate students studying aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University. 

2013

Robert and Becky Gates Commit $1.5 Million to Support Texas A&M University

Former U.S. Defense Secretary and previous Texas A&M University President Robert Gates and his wife Becky committed a $1.5 million estate gift to the Texas A&M Foundation to support the early childhood center on campus named in her honor.

Fishers' Gift to Engineering Education Complex Largest to Date

SuSu and Mark Fischer ’72 give $12 million toward construction of a new Engineering Education Complex, set to open in fall 2018. The 525,000-square-foot facility, dedicated to undergraduate engineering education, will be the largest academic building on campus. Construction is later supplemented by other multimillion-dollar gifts, including $10 million from Amy ’84 and Tim Leach ’82 and $15 million from the Zachry Group to name the facility the Zachry Engineering Education Complex. More than $65 million has been raised toward the project thus far.

Ferguson Establishes $10 Million Endowment to Support Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M

Mary-Ann and Tom Ferguson ’78 see Aggies as leaders of tomorrow, and they want to play a part in cultivating that leadership by providing students with international business and engineering experience. In addition to their existing gifts in support of this goal, the Fort Worth couple created a multimillion-dollar bequest in a revocable living trust that will support Texas A&M’s industrial distribution program after their lifetimes.

ExxonMobil Foundation Presents More Than $2 Million to Texas A&M Foundation

The ExxonMobil Foundation has presented a check for more than $2 million to the Texas A&M Foundation. The funds represent contributions made by the company’s employees, retirees, surviving spouses and directors as well as ExxonMobil’s 3-to-1 unrestricted match of these donations under the ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2012 Educational Matching Gift Program.

2012

Longtime Texas A&M University Benefactor Continues Family Legacy with $10 Million Planned Gift for Merit-Based Scholarships

Reta Haynes establishes the Haynes Scholars Program, which provides four-year scholarships equal to 50 percent or more of the cost of attending Texas A&M to outstanding students. Later gifts from Mrs. Haynes during the campaign support additional scholarships; enhance the Harold J. Haynes Dean’s Chair in the College of Engineering; and establish the Reta Haynes Dean’s Chair in the College of Education and Human Development. With these commitments, Mrs. Haynes becomes one of Texas A&M’s most generous supporters.

Texas A&M Professors Fund Faculty Chairs with Future Gift to Chemistry

Professors and husband-and-wife pair John Gladysz and Janet Bluemel make substantial provisions in their estate to create two endowed faculty chairs and an unrestricted fund in chemistry. Texas A&M faculty have given more than $28 million toward the campaign. 

Friendswood Couple Commits $3 Million to Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets

Zoe and Tony Buzbee ’90 commit a lead $3 million gift toward the Corps of Cadets’ Quad renovation project. Their gift names the Quad’s first Leadership Learning Center, while multimillion-dollar contributions from Susan and Michael J. Plank ’83, Stephen C. Ash ’87 and H. Grady Ash Jr. ’58 later support the construction and naming of three more learning centers. The renovations—the largest since the Quad’s construction in 1939—have transformed the space into a modern living-learning environment.