UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
January 2010
NSM Alumni Giving Increases 10 Percent

Donors play an essential role in advancing research and funding student scholarships at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. And despite the economic downturn in 2009, NSM’s alumni came through – the number of alumni donating to NSM increased 10 percent.

This list includes those donors who made a gift to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from June 2008 to August 2009. Categories are based on total lifetime giving to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Asterisks denote those donors who have given for at least three consecutive years.

Click here to see the whole list (.pdf).

The following is a list of some of our top donors ($100,000 +) for 2009.

$100,000 to $499,999
American Heart Assoc. – Texas Affiliate
MD Anderson Foundation*
BP America Inc.
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Chevron *
Exxon Mobil Corporation *
Greater Texas Foundation
Institute of Biomedical Imaging Sciences
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Lintec Corporation
Marathon Oil Corporation *
Methodist Hospital Research Institute *
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
Texas Instruments Incorporated

$500,000 to $1,000,0000
American Cancer Society
Devon Energy Corporation
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.
Houston Advanced Research Center
Rice University
Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sheriff *
Dr. Herman D. Suit and Dr. Joan Suit

More than $1 million
Baylor College of Medicine
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Cullen Trust for Higher Education
Petroleum Research Fund *
The Robert A. Welch Foundation *

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