Alumnus Jim Gallogly, left, former CEO of LyondellBasell Industries and emeritus member of the CU Engineering Advisory Council, joins Mike Wirth, Chevron Corp. vice chairman and chair of the CU Engineering Advisory Council, after unveiling a sign bearing the new name for the Discovery Learning Center.
With $2.5 million in gifts, Colorado’s Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center and boosting the teaching and research power of CU Engineering with two faculty positions.
James L. “Jim” Gallogly, his wife, Janet, and family gave a $1.5 million lead gift to establish the Robert H. Davis Endowed Chair in Discovery Learning, named in honor of the college’s former dean. The college’s Engineering Advisory Council, of
which Jim Gallogly is an emeritus member, raised an additional $500,000 in private support, which the campus then matched with a $500,000 contribution.
Additionally, a $1 million gift from the Gallogly family establishes an endowed professorship in the chemical and biological engineering department. Endowed chairs and professorships help attract and retain brilliant scholars by providing them dedicated resources for innovative research and teaching opportunities. Both endowments provide funding in perpetuity.
The Gallogly Discovery Learning Center, named in honor of these gifts, offers undergraduates opportunities for interdisciplinary research and K-12 educational programming.
Jim Gallogly, a 1974 graduate of the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS), is the retired chief executive of LyondellBasell in Houston, a large polymers, petrochemicals and refining company. The Galloglys have three daughters, Kelly, Kasey and Kimberly. Kasey (Gallogly) DeLuke is a 2003 graduate of CU Boulder.
The family’s legacy at CU began with Jim Gallogly’s late father who, after a military career, earned two degrees from UCCS in the early 1970s. Since then, more than a dozen members of the extended Gallogly family have earned degrees from CU’s campuses, and they remain among the university’s most generous supporters.
“Our family is proud to have three generations of CU graduates,” Jim Gallogly said. “We will continue to support our university in a variety of ways in the years to come.”