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With $2.5 million in gifts, Colorado’s Gallogly family is naming the Discovery Learning Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as boosting the teaching and research power of the College of Engineering and Applied Science with two new faculty positions.

James L. "Jim" Gallogly, his wife, Janet, and family are committing a $1.5 million lead gift to establish the Robert H. Davis Endowed Chair in Discovery Learning, a new position named in honor of the engineering college's outgoing dean. The college's Engineering Advisory Council, of which Jim Gallogly is an emeritus member, aims to raise an additional $500,000 in private support toward a $500,000 matching challenge. Taken together, these efforts will raise the visibility and heighten the impact of the endowed chair.

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. High-caliber researchers attract the brightest graduate and undergraduate students and spur transformational advancements in society. Both endowments provide funding in perpetuity.