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A formal ceremony honoring a family that includes eight University of Colorado at Colorado Springs alumni and donated $1 million to a new campus events center is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Top University of Colorado officials, including members of the CU Board of Regents, will attend the ceremony at the Gallogly Events Center along with campus faculty, staff, students and alumni. The event will formally dedicate the events center in memory of Tommy M. Gallogly who earned two degrees at UCCS as a non-traditional student and later taught in Academy District 20. Seven of the ten children born to Tommy and Margery Gallogly graduated from UCCS.

“This is an outstanding Colorado Springs and UCCS story of success,” Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said. “We will honor the memory of Tommy Gallogly and the legacy that his children and grandchildren continue.”

In January, James L. “Jim” Gallogly, a 1974 graduate, and his wife, Janet, on behalf of the Gallogly family, announced a $1 million donation to the CU Foundation. They requested the university name the events center in honor of Jim Gallogly’s father, Tommy, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from UCCS in 1970 and 1973.

It is the first full UCCS building named in honor of a campus alum.

Tommy Gallogly died in 2000. Seven children of Tommy and Margery Gallogly earned degrees from UCCS and all ten children graduated from college. More than 47 family representatives, including Margery Gallogly, Buena Vista, are expected to attend the Wednesday ceremony and will assist in the unveiling of the Gallogly Events Center nameplate and a plaque that tells Tommy Gallogly’s personal story.

“We are pleased to name the new event center in honor of our father, Tom Gallogly, one of the early graduates of UCCS. He would be extremely proud of how his alma mater has grown and prospered through the years,” stated Jim Gallogly.

Jim Gallogly is the chief executive officer of LyondellBasell in Houston, one of the world’s largest polymers, petrochemicals and refining companies. He previously held executive positions with ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips and Phillips Petroleum dating to 1980. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UCCS in 1974 and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1977. Jim and Janet Gallogly have three daughters, Kelly, Kasey, and Kimberly Gallogly, and maintain a residence in Colorado Springs.

A graduate of Wasson High School in Colorado Springs, Jim Gallogly followed in his father’s footsteps to UCCS along with six of his siblings: Mary Gallogly DeSantis, 1977; Tony Gallogly, 1983; Nicholas Gallogly, 1985; Andrew Gallogly, 1987; Paul H. Gallogly, 1988; and Thomas Gallogly, 1990.

In addition to being home to the NCAA Division II and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference-member UCCS Mountain Lions, the Gallogly Events Center serves as a multi-purpose venue for all-campus events. The 27,000 square foot center features high-tech sound, lighting and high-speed data capability. Plans call for the center to be a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Efficiency-certified green building.

Several students in the University of Colorado Denver’s new BA/BS-MD program will receive School of Medicine scholarships—thanks to a new endowment funded by a bequest from former University of Colorado medical researcher Jean Baughman (BS ’58, CU-Boulder).

The bequest is currently valued at approximately $1.6 million in cash but includes other assets that, when liquidated, may add roughly a quarter million dollars more to the total. Baughman made this commitment, facilitated by the University of Colorado Foundation, in 2000 in honor of her stepfather Charles Henry Hargreaves, MD, who himself received two CU degrees including from the School of Medicine in 1950.

Baughman had worked in the hematology lab at the School of Medicine for several years after graduating from CU-Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in medical technology. After a career at CU and later in New Mexico, she retired to San Antonio, Texas, passing away in 2008.

The scholarships, to be awarded in perpetuity, will be distributed to students entering the School of Medicine as part of UC Denver’s BA/BS-MD program—a new UC Denver program that combines four years of undergraduate schooling on the University of Colorado’s Denver campus with four years of medical training at the School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

This BA/BS-MD program is aimed to attract top Colorado students, and help them pursue careers as primary physicians in underserved Colorado communities without incurring large debt loads. The first cohort of BA/BS-MD students begins this eight-year program in Fall 2010.

University of Colorado at Boulder alumna Jane Butcher, who with her late husband Charlie Butcher has played a key role in supporting CU-Boulder’s rapidly expanding biotechnology research efforts, has pledged $1 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building being built on the university’s East Campus.

Jane Butcher’s gift will honor Charlie Butcher, who passed away in 2004 and was a successful businessman with a passion for science, social responsibility and innovation. Charlie Butcher’s links to CU-Boulder-affiliated scientific startup companies spanned more than 30 years, and he played lead roles as a funder and adviser to firms such as Clonetics and NeXagen.  Charlie and Jane Butcher also founded the university’s biennial forum the Butcher Symposia of Genomics and Biotechnology.

This gift commitment is the latest in nearly $4 million in total gifts the Butchers have made on behalf of CU-Boulder biotechnology. “I would love this to become an internationally recognized center for biotech. I think you have the perfect ingredients,” said Butcher, who received her bachelor’s degree in 1966 in international affairs from CU-Boulder. “Charlie was a big thinker, and he thought CU was the place this should all happen.”

In collaboration with Butcher’s gift, biotech industry pioneer Larry Gold — a biology professor at CU-Boulder since 1970 and current CEO of the biotech firm SomaLogic — is directing a previously undesignated gift toward the biotechnology building in honor of Charlie Butcher. In recognition of the gifts, the building’s auditorium and adjacent foyer will be named in honor of Jane and Charlie Butcher.

Gold, who met the Butchers in the early 1970s and became a lifelong friend of the couple, said Charlie Butcher had considered pursuing a doctorate in biology.  Although Butcher did not enroll formally in a degree program, his passion led to volunteer work in the 1970s in the labs of CU-Boulder’s Gold and David Hirsh — work that led to pioneering discoveries.

“He did the work of someone who would have had a Ph.D. — he just loved learning,” Gold said. “He was one of the world’s great listeners. He had no need to remind you of the things he had done, but he did a lot of things.”

Jane and Charlie Butcher also have been core supporters of the Conference on World Affairs, the annual CU-Boulder forum that takes place in April.

The first phase of the 257,000-square-foot Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building is slated for completion in late 2011 and will house the university’s Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, or CIMB, as well as the chemical and biological engineering department and the biochemistry division of the chemistry and biochemistry department.

The building has been instrumental in helping CU-Boulder recruit a “dream team” of scientists and engineers led by CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Thomas Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and former president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as chief scientific officer and CU-Boulder Professor Leslie Leinwand, also a founding scientist of several successful biotech companies.

With the new gift, more than $30 million in private support has now been raised for the building, including an initial naming gift from CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Marvin Caruthers. The balance of the funding for Phase I, budgeted at $146 million, is expected from additional private funding, as well as grants and sponsored research support.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A new, 1,250-seat event center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs will bear the name of a family of eight UCCS alums.

James L. “Jim” Gallogly, a 1974 graduate, and his wife, Janet, on behalf of the Gallogly family, have pledged to donate $1 million to the CU Foundation. The donation will be used to help fund the $9 million campus event center scheduled for a Jan. 22 grand opening and for other campus needs. It is the first full UCCS building named in honor of a campus alum.

The Gallogly connection to UCCS began with Jim’s father, Tom Gallogly, a non-traditional student who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from UCCS in 1970 and 1973. He died in 2000. Seven children of Tom and Margery Gallogly earned degrees from UCCS.

“I am deeply honored by the commitment of the Gallogly family to this campus and to the UCCS heritage of this dynamic group of people,” Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak said. “The event center will stand as a cornerstone of the future growth of UCCS.”

“We are pleased to name the new event center in honor of our father, Tom Gallogly, one of the early graduates of UCCS.  He would be extremely proud of how his alma mater has grown and prospered through the years,” stated Jim Gallogly.

Jim is the Chief Executive Officer of LyondellBasell in Houston, one of the world’s largest polymers, petrochemicals and refining companies. He previously held executive positions with ConocoPhillips, ChevronPhillips and Phillips Petroleum dating to 1980. He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from UCCS in 1974 and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1977. Jim and Janet Gallogly have three daughters, Kelly, Kasey, and Kimberly Gallogly, and maintain a residence in Colorado Springs.

A graduate of Wasson High School in Colorado Springs, Jim Gallogly followed in his father’s footsteps to UCCS along with six of his siblings:  Mary Gallogly DeSantis, 1977; Tony Gallogly, 1983; Nicholas Gallogly, 1985; Andrew Gallogly, 1987; Paul H. Gallogly, 1988; and Thomas Gallogly, 1990. A ceremony unveiling the official name of the event center will occur at a later date.

Located in the heart of campus, the event center will be home to the UCCS Mountain Lion athletic teams and serve as a hub for community events and conferences. As one of the fastest growing universities in the state, the center will create space for a growing athletics program and student body. It also cements the university’s commitment to the broader community with space that will be available for concerts, lectures, meetings and other community needs.

In addition to being home to the NCAA Division II and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference-member UCCS Mountain Lions, the center will also serve as a multi-purpose venue for all-campus events. The 27,000 square foot center, located adjacent to the old Lions’ Den, features high-tech sound, lighting and high-speed data capability. Plans call for the center to be a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Efficiency-certified green building.

Official grand opening ceremonies, featuring UCCS and CU dignitaries, begin at 4 p.m. Jan. 22 prior to men’s and women’s basketball games against Regis University. Faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members are invited to attend. The ceremony will feature comments by CU Regent Steve Bosley, CU President Bruce Benson, and UCCS Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak. UCCS cheerleaders and dance team will perform and the Gallogly gift will be announced.

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in Colorado Springs, is one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The University offers 34 bachelor’s degrees, 18 master’s and five doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls about 8,500 students annually.

Amgen, a global biotechnology company with manufacturing operations in Boulder and Longmont, is giving $1 million toward the Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility under construction at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The first phase of the 257,000-square-foot building on CU-Boulder’s East Campus, northwest of Colorado Avenue and the Foothills Parkway, is slated for completion in late 2011. The facility will house the university’s Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology, or CIMB, the department of chemical and biological engineering, and the biochemistry division of the department of chemistry and biochemistry.

The building has been instrumental in helping CIMB recruit a “dream team” of scientists and engineers led by CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Thomas Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and former president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

“Dr. Cech has not only been a leader in his field, but has advanced opportunities for research for students throughout his career,” said Dave Bengston, vice president of Colorado site operations at Amgen. “Amgen’s grant demonstrates our confidence in Dr. Cech’s vision to further enhance research opportunities for undergraduates and aligns with our company’s commitment to advancing science education and biotechnology research.”

Amgen employs more than 900 people in Boulder County.

“Amgen’s gift comes at a critical time in the construction of CU’s new building, and it will allow full fit-out of laboratory space that would otherwise have been shell space,” Cech said. “Equally exciting is the fact that this gift strengthens Colorado’s already strong relationship with this premier biotechnology company.”

A total of 60 senior CU-Boulder faculty, 500 staff members and hundreds of students are expected to work toward biotechnology solutions in the new building.

With the Amgen gift, more than $25 million in private support has been raised for the building including a lead naming gift from CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Marvin Caruthers, a member of Amgen’s first scientific advisory board. With a $60 million commitment from the university, this comprises more than half the building’s $145 million Phase I cost.

About Amgen
Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to realize the new science’s promise by bringing safe and effective medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. Amgen therapeutics have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people’s lives. To learn more about our pioneering science and our vital medicines, visit www.amgen.com.

The University of Colorado Foundation has promoted Matthew Wasserman to lead fundraising efforts for the University of Colorado Denver’s Downtown campus, effective January 4. As a senior director of development for the Foundation, Wasserman will lead a fundraising effort that raised $4.8 million in 2008-09 for the campus’s eight schools and colleges serving a student population of 11,000.

Wasserman (who received a Masters in Business Administration in 2004 from UC Denver) has for the last two years led the fundraising effort for the UC Denver Business School, with $3 million in gifts raised for the School, nearly triple its average annual amount. He has played an integral role in the campaign to create a new home for the School at 1475 Lawrence Court. He has initiated a campaign fundraising model—which mobilizes effective volunteer networks—now being implemented for other schools on the downtown campus.

“Thanks to Matt’s diligence and ingenuity, our campaign is ideally positioned for continued growth and success, as we prepare the School to take a substantial step forward,” says Sueann Ambron, dean of the Business School. “We look forward to continuing to work with him in his new, broader role.”

Before arriving at the CU Foundation in December 2007, Wasserman worked in numerous fundraising and management capacities in nonprofit and political arenas, including as co-owner and president for the Denver Development Group (raising money for clients such as the Children’s Museum of Denver), the Denver Art Museum, and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s re-election campaign as a client.

Founded in 1967, the nonprofit CU Foundation partners with the University of Colorado to raise, manage, and invest private support for the university’s benefit. Visit www.cufund.org for more information.

DENVER (Dec. 2, 2009) – Colorado’s small communities are going green, thanks to the Colorado Municipal League (CML) and a generous gift from the Walmart Foundation. The University of Colorado Denver plans to expand a community outreach program to help Colorado’s smaller towns and cities conduct urban infrastructure reviews and greenhouse gas evaluations, followed by the development of customized action plans to reduce their carbon footprints. The $30,000 Walmart gift will help offset the costs of conducting the reviews in Colorado communities with populations less than 35,000. The Colorado Municipal League is assisting in connecting these communities with UC Denver.

“Sustainable energy and infrastructure planning can help save money, protect the environment, and build vibrant communities across Colorado,” said Anu Ramaswami, PhD, professor of Environmental and Sustainability Engineering and director of the GAANN and IGERT programs on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure <http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/IGERT/>  at UC Denver. “It is often difficult for a community to know how to get started on developing a sustainability plan; this grant is helping us to conduct outreach so we can help Colorado communities become leaders in sustainability.”

The outreach program offers carbon footprint measurement and sustainable energy benchmarks for individual communities, along with future scenario models and customized sustainable infrastructure action matrixes. The carbon footprint baseline helps measure and benchmark how much energy is consumed in various essential sectors such as buildings, industry, transportation, waste management, water treatment, food production and infrastructure materials. The benchmarks allow communities to track their progress in energy efficiency, conservation, and use of renewables, while the scenario models allow communities to envision their future with and without sustainable actions. The action matrixes give a variety of options for each community to consider, taking into account public participation, cost, long-term monetary savings, and long-term energy savings.

“UC Denver is pleased to partner across private industry, government and the non-profit arena to support Colorado’s small and rural communities as they work to create more sustainable infrastructures for their citizens,” said UC Denver’s Chancellor M. Roy Wilson.

The Walmart Foundation gift, facilitated by the University of Colorado Foundation, is the first for a planned collaborative center at UC Denver that will focus on research, teaching and outreach programs with a spotlight on sustainability and sustainable infrastructure development. UC Denver’s Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems <http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/IGERT/center.html>  will be anchored by UC Denver’s College of Engineering & Applied Sciences and will partner with the School of Public Affairs, joining engineers who design innovative technologies with experts who look at implementation and public policy solutions. UC Denver’s other schools and colleges will likely join the collaboration as the center grows.

Towns and cities in Colorado that are scheduled to work with UC Denver’s sustainable infrastructure experts include Golden, Dillon, Fowler, Eagle and Steamboat Springs/Routt County, Colo. This work builds upon UC Denver’s research and outreach in sustainable urban infrastructure conducted over the last five years in partnership with other Colorado cities such as Denver, Broomfield, Arvada, Aurora, Central City and Durango.

“Walmart is very proud to be partnering with the Colorado Municipal League, UC Denver and these towns,” said Joshua Phair, senior manager of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Walmart Stores, Inc. “Our hope is that this program brings cutting-edge knowledge to all corners of the state to help make Colorado’s communities more sustainable.”

The innovative community outreach program at UC Denver was initially launched in 2005 through a GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) award from the U.S. Department of Education. The initial award to UC Denver’s College of Engineering was used to foster innovative research and curriculum to address sustainable urban infrastructure in U.S. cities – recognized as an area of national need. That initial grant was followed by a $3.2 million Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) <http://thunder1.cudenver.edu/IGERT/about.html>  grant from the National Science Foundation. The resulting work done by UC Denver’s sustainable infrastructure research team is estimated to have directly affected more than 1 million people across the state.

The Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems at UC Denver will focus on five major areas of research and service related to sustainability:

• Measuring sustainability baselines via tools developed by UC Denver’s faculty/researchers and students (carbon footprints, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.);
• Developing innovative technologies and designs for sustainable infrastructure systems;
• Coordinating strategic planning and policy for creating and implementing sustainable infrastructure systems in cities;
• Designing public participation and engagement processes; and
• Assessing and implementing outcomes of urban sustainability projects.

For more information about the upcoming Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems, please visit www.cudenver.edu/IGERT.

About UC Denver

The University of Colorado Denver <http://www.ucdenver.edu/>  offers more than 120 degrees and programs in 13 schools and colleges and serves more than 28,000 students. UC Denver is located on the Denver Campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. For more information, visit the UC Denver Newsroom <http://ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/Pages/Newsroom.aspx> .

About CML

CML is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established in 1923 and represents the interests of 262 cities and towns. For more information on the Colorado Municipal League, please visit www.cml.org or call 303.831.6411.

Denver—(November 23, 2009)—On this week’s edition of “Colorado State of Mind,” the Emmy Award-winning program on Rocky Mountain PBS, Rocky Mountain PBS President and CEO Doug Price hosts a special holiday edition of the program. He will be joined by a panel of Colorado nonprofit CEOs for a discussion about charitable giving during difficult economic times.

How are Colorado foundations and nonprofits coping, and what is the ripple effect for the programs they support? The investment made by foundations and individuals in communities across the state usually has a multiplier effect in local economies. Has that changed in the past year of recession?

Guests joining host Doug Price:

• Sheila Bugdanowitz, president/CEO, Rose Community Foundation
• Wayne Hutchens, president/CEO, University of Colorado Foundation
• Christine Benero, president/CEO, Mile High United Way
• David Miller, president/CEO, The Denver Foundation

The program is viewable at: http://video.rmpbs.org/video/1342040375/

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