With $100 million for OSU, Pickens says he's not done
With state match, gift's value will double

 
By Susan Simpson
Published: May 22, 2008

STILLWATER — Boone Pickens ' $100 million gift to endow 150 faculty jobs will enable Oklahoma State University to attract the nation's best researchers and professors and establish OSU as an academic powerhouse, the Texas billionaire and OSU officials said Wednesday.

"This gift is going to give us the chance to change this university,” OSU President Burns Hargis said. "Education is the passport to prosperi...


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