February 1, 2006
[LSU
NEWS]
Four LSU colleges and two career-assistance
programs will benefit from Shell Oil Company’s
latest gift to the university, a donation totaling
$170,500. On Friday, Jan. 27, Shell will present
the gift to LSU at an 8 a.m. ceremony at LSU’s
Energy, Coast and Environment Building. Shell’s
contribution to LSU will help students and faculty
across a wide array of academic disciplines on
campus.
The total $170,500 will be presented in two parts.
The Applied Depositional Geosystems Program within
LSU’s Department of Geology and Geophysics
will be awarded a $40,000 grant. The remaining
$130,500 will be divided as follows: $20,000 to
the E.J. Ourso College of Business, $75,000 to
the College of Engineering, $20,000 to the College
of Basic Sciences, $5,000 to the Honors College,
$5,000 to Career Services and $5,500 to LSU’s
Minority Engineering Program.
“It’s great to see one of the world’s
corporate leaders, Shell, form relationships with
so many areas at LSU,” said LSU Foundation
President and CEO, Maj. Gen. USMC (Ret.) William
G. Bowdon. “We are very thankful and fortunate
as a university community to have Shell as a partner
in creating an even better LSU for the future
of Louisiana.”
Within the past year, Shell has also teamed with
LSU on two other major projects, the opening of
the Shell Coastal Environmental Modeling Laboratory
in May of 2005 and the opening of the acclaimed
“Vanishing Wetlands: Two Views” exhibit
at the LSU Museum of Art in October of 2005.
Shell Oil Company, including its consolidated
companies and its share in equity companies, is
one of America’s leading oil and natural
gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline
marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. Shell,
a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater
Gulf of Mexico, is a recognized pioneer in oil
and gas exploration and production technology.
Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of the Royal
Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, which operates
in more than 140 countries and employs more than
112,000 people.
For more information, contact Scott Madere, the
director of public relations for the LSU Foundation,
at 225-578-3826 or smadere@lsufoundation.org.
Shell can be reached via its Media Line at 713-241-4544.
Wendy Osborn Luedtke
LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business
225/578-8865
